US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

When asked whether the Soviet Union should have sent troops to Afghanistan, 42% of those polled said no, while 31% said yes. Another 27% found it difficult to answer the question. Most of those ...

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. The decision of the 1989 Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union to condemn sending Soviet troops to Afghanistan was historically unfair, according to the ...

Negotiations will only work after the Kremlin views the Ukraine war as a lost cause In order for any settlement with Russia ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

In May 1988, Soviets started to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan after ... that participated in many conflicts. From Afghanistan and post-Soviet wars all the way to the current Russian ...

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to ...

San Javier, founded more than a century ago by Russian immigrants in the Uruguayan department (province) of Río Negro, did play a part in the Soviet Army's fight against Nazi German troops in ...