Soviet Union

Uzbekistan elections 2015: Islam Karimov re-elected as president

Islam Karimov has been re-elected as Uzbekistan’s president, according to preliminary results of Sunday's election. The widely-predicted outcome saw Islam…

10 years ago

David Greenglass: Manhattan Project spy died aged 92

David Greenglass, an American spy who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in one of the most high-profile espionage…

10 years ago

John Walker Jr. dead: Spy ring mastermind dies in prison at 77

Former US navy sailor John Walker Jr., who led a spy ring for the Soviet Union, has died in a…

10 years ago

Natalya Gorbanevskaya dies in Paris at 77

Russian dissident from Soviet-era Natalya Gorbanevskaya has died in Paris aged 77. Natalya Gorbanevskaya was arrested for taking part in…

11 years ago

Who really won World War II?

Sixty-seven years ago, in May 1945, the Nazi regime collapsed being squeezed ever more tightly between two fronts - the…

13 years ago

Svetlana Peters, Stalin’s only daughter, dies at 85 in Wisconsin

Svetlana Peters, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin has died in Wisconsin, aged 85. Stalin’s daughter, who…

13 years ago