Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On Dec. 8, 1991, the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War rivals for decades, ...

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] On December 26, 1991, 30 years ago, the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) officially declared the dissolution ...

TALLINN, Estonia — It is a dismal end to glory. On a gray foggy day, four Soviet naval officers sit in a tiny office at a Tallinn minesweeping base, trying to sort out who they are and where they ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed he worked as a taxi driver in the 1990s following the breakup of the Soviet Union, which he described as the demise of "historical Russia." Discussing the ...

Stop for a moment and ask not simply why the Soviet Union broke up, but why it fractured into 15 pieces, rather than many more, corresponding, say, to the country's vast number of ethnic, or religious ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former top Soviet officials on Friday marked the signing 25 years ago of the treaty that formally dissolved the Soviet Union, and they used the occasion to urge dialogue on the ...

Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.

When Jason Eskenazi was growing up in Queens, N.Y., during the Reagan era, he kept hearing about this mysterious thing — "The Evil Empire." He became so curious about it that once the Berlin Wall fell ...

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