One time I remember a soldier being swept away.' The worst explosion at Semipalatinsk took place on January 15, 1965, when the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb 11 times the strength of the bomb ...

MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

TASS/. More than 7,600 place names, related to Soviet Union and Russia, were changed in Ukraine over the past year, Ukrainian Culture and Information Policy Minister Alexander Tkachenko has said.