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” ...

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 ...

Painting Bullseyes: What Iran’s Attacks on US Bases Mean for the Indo-Pacific The geopolitical discourse of our times is dominated by a growing multipolarity, unlike 30 years back, when the world was ...

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world in 1960, has seen a drastic decline, with only about 10% of its original size remaining today. This environmental disaster has profoundly ...

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

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The nation's foreign policy focus has turned to how to contain Russian ...

Few world leaders have cut a more consequential but ultimately tragic figure than Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, whose death at the age of 91 has been announced by Russian state media. In a way it was ...

The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...

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, ...