LONDON (Reuters) - Russia has lost any illusions about ever relying on the West and Moscow will never accept a world order dominated by the United States, which is acting like a sheriff seeking to ...

Communists waving Marxist pamphlets and Twitter storms praising the Soviet Union are probably not what the thousands of Russians who rallied in 1991 against a coup by anti-democracy hardliners ...

Demonstrators confront the military in front of Russia's White House on August 20, 1991 (ITAR-TASS) PRAGUE, August 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Through the winter of 1990-91 the glue that held together the ...

MOSCOW, June 30 (UPI) --Russia's chief prosecutor opened an investigation into whether it was legal for the country to recognize Baltic state independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOSCOW — Twenty years ago today, communist hard-liners staged a coup here, sending tanks rumbling to the Russian White House in an effort to preserve the ...

It has been 20 years since the failed coup that precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, 20 years since 15 new independent countries appeared on the global stage But for citizens of these ...

FILE PHOTO: A Group of Lithuanians block a Russian tank outside of Press House in Vilnius two days prior to attack by Russian forces on the TV tower during which 14 people died, January 1991.