"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia ...

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... Since then, the railway’s gulag camps have lain abandoned, sinking further into the forest ...

Georgia plans to spend millions turning an abandoned Soviet-era spa town into a tourist attraction. But Tskaltubo's decaying sanatoriums are also home to refugees from a past civil war ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many of those farms were abandoned, leaving large areas of land (estimated at around 20 million hectares) to be colonized by grassy vegetation. Nicolas Vuichard of ...

when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov had been abandoned. “I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy ...

Photographer David de Rueda has captured various abandoned Soviet spaces. His favorite place he's captured is a hangar in the steppe of Kazakhstan that holds two space shuttles from the USSR's ...