and from an American nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR. Also, the performance artist protesting about the growing divide between rich and poor, and the first editor of Vogue ...

Hear from two of those leaders Show more In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia - signed a treaty dissolving the USSR. They did it without asking ...

Reports emerged on the morning of 15 December indicating that two Russian tankers, Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239, were ...

"What was the break-up of the USSR? It was the break-up of historical Russia," Mr Putin said in a recent state TV documentary. "We lost 40% of our territory… much of what had been accumulated ...

can break up the strategic partnership between Moscow and Beijing," he said, speaking about the impact of Trump's victory on the Russian-Chinese partnership. However, Dynkin noted that Russia and ...

President Vladimir Putin has set up a working group to mitigate the impact of the fuel spill, whose extent is still unknown.