The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989. Since then ...

Russia’s highest prosecutor has formally asked that the Taliban be removed from the nation’s terrorism list — just months after President Vladimir Putin called the Afghan extremist group “a trusted ...

As Russia develops ties with the Taliban, the country is considering suspending the ban on the movement. The expected move, however, would not amount to a formal recognition of the Taliban government ...

S. Khrushchev, in his speech before the Supreme Soviet on May 5 that a foreign aircraft crossed the border of the Soviet Union on May 1 and that on orders of the Soviet Government, this aircraft ...

Four days earlier, one of the Soviet leaders, Georgii Malenkov announced to the Supreme Soviet that the U.S. no longer had a monopoly in hydrogen weapons. The scientists, who were already at the ...

MOSCOW, January 9. /TASS/. /TASS/. Last Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and former member of the Russian State Duma Anatoly Lukyanov has died on Wednesday at the age of 88, Smolensk ...

While tens of thousands of letters on the issue of constitutional reform were sent to the Supreme Soviet and newspapers, the government debates took place entirely behind closed doors. Dozens of ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Monday said it received a ... which the group rules. The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989.