Within just a few years, the Soviet Union collapsed, opening the door for the US to emerge as the world’s only fully dominant power. Given recent events, however, it may be time to dust off ...

The resurrection of the Soviet military industrial complex – to borrow a term from Pierre-Marie Meunier, the French intelligence analyst – is cannibalising the rest of the economy. Some ...

Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a roughly equal pace. The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a ...

The resurrection of the Soviet military industrial complex – to borrow a term from Pierre-Marie Meunier, the French intelligence analyst – is cannibalising the rest of the economy. Some 800,000 of the ...

The closure of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow on November 14 – and the removal announced on December 3 of the Solovetsky Stone "in memory of the millions of victims of the Soviet ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the 2024 Article IV consultation and completed the eighth review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement for Suriname. The ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...

Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation[1] with Kuwait. The economy remains in recession due to OPEC+ production cuts, but a ...

Spirit of Tasmania IV has departed its shipbuilder's port in Finland and is making its way to Leith port in Edinburgh, Scotland. In a report released in October, Tasmania's Department of State ...

Russia's involvement in Syria predates the leadership of Putin and stretches all the way back to before the disintegration of the mighty Soviet Union. Sitting between Europe and the Persian Gulf ...

The event, which commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War, is held in Moscow's Red Square. For context: Moscow and Pyongyang have grown closer in their relations ...