The conflict has been accompanied by a significant transfer of assets as many Western companies fled the Russian market, ...

To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.

Many of Russia's T-72 tanks have reportedly been exposed to the elements since the fall of the Soviet Union in late December 1991, and have likely suffered for it.

The Soviet Union was the world’s number two economic power, second only to the United States. Russia has an economy roughly the size of Canada’s and is no longer ranked even in the global top ten.

China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.

Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov on February 21, 2023 in Moscow, Russia. On his radio show, he has called for a return to the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, the fertility rate dropped even further -- to 1.16 in 1999, which placed Russia among 10 countries with the lowest birth rates in the world.

While Russia and the Soviet Union are often used interchangeably, there were 14 other republics also bundled into the USSR. Today’s Russia has about half the population of the Soviet Union.

Updated at 11:15 a.m. ET on September 18, 2023. The thunder of war in Ukraine drowns out a lot of other news from Russia. A few days ago, however, the Russian foreign intelligence service quietly ...