‘Perimeter’ could set loose Russia’s entire nuclear arsenal—even with every leader in Moscow dead.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A discussion on Russian state television saw arguments praising the ...

It was 20 years ago this week that the Soviet Union’s defenders mounted a last-ditch effort to stop the implementation of liberalizing reforms and preserve the USSR. The failure of their “August coup” ...

A graduate of the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute with a degree in “Oceanology,” Kurilov worked at the local branch of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, as well as ...

One of the biggest signs of the impending collapse of the USSR happened in September 1991, on an airfield outside Moscow, where at least half a million Soviets gathered to listen to American rock and ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — When the leaders of the Soviet Union’s three Slavic republics met at a secluded hunting lodge on Dec. 8, 1991, the fate of the vast country hung in the balance. With a stroke of their ...

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was the trusty rearguard of the USSR both in peacetime and in war. It was here that the country's industrial potential was cultivated, nuclear weapons were tested, ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the ...