Nov 15th, 2008 · Growing up during the Reagan era, Jason Eskenazi heard so much about "The Evil Empire" that when the Berlin Wall came down, he had to go visit it. He ended up spending more than a decade photographing life in the former Soviet Union.
Oct 20th, 2008 · Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ever as part of a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Online voting temporarily put Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at the top of the list.
Sep 10th, 2008 · For much of the 20th century, Russian (and Soviet) leaders with full heads of hair shared the country's top political spot with bald men. In fact, they very nearly went back and forth — something their American rivals did not come close to doing.
Sep 8th, 2008 · "This is an improbable but true tale." So beginsThe Lost Spy, Andrew Meier's chronicle of Cy Oggins, an American who spied for Joseph Stalin's secret service — and was probably murdered by the Soviets.
Sep 4th, 2008 · Vice President Dick Cheney was in Georgia Thursday signaling Washington's support for the former Soviet republic. In a statement, he decried what he called Russia's "illegitimate" attempt to redraw Georgia's borders by force.
Sep 3rd, 2008 · Literary critics feared that after the Soviet collapse, the easy availability of popular romance novels and thrillers would seduce Russian readers away from deeper works. Now they attribute a literary revival to the country's new authoritarianism.
Aug 29th, 2008 · A separatist enclave in Moldova could be the next place Russia will try to assert its control over the former Soviet republics.
Aug 28th, 2008 · Russia is facing international isolation over this month's attacks in Georgia, and the country failed to enlist the support it wanted from China and a group of former Soviet republics in central Asia. Moscow has accused NATO of "battleship diplomacy."