Under Vladimir Putin, Victory Day has become Russia’s most important secular holiday. A day for remembering, not only the ...

The Saur Revolution of 1978 is a ray of hope in these dark times, and proves that even in the most backward regions and most ...

Meanwhile, many signs and echoes of the former Soviet Union have resurfaced in Afghanistan over the past decade, often in unexpected forms. Georgian and Azeri troops served among the ISAF forces ...

Around 150,000 of these have been killed - this is ten times the number of Soviet soldiers who died in Afghanistan during a ...

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 ...

"Close to 620,000 officers, sergeants and soldiers went through their ... on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. The ministry said "by assisting brotherly ...

Some experts believe training from UK armed forces could be invaluable for Ukraine’s military efforts - but politically risky ...

In 1988 the president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, made a fateful decision. After years of combat, exhausted Soviet troops were finally withdrawing from the country. Fearing Afghanistan ...

Though Rahman Kul urged his people to remain in Pakistan—the Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, he warned, would ban their religion and crush their freedoms—many Kyrgyz were disillusioned with ...

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 the brutal nine-year conflict, an estimated one million civilians were killed, as well as 90,000 Mujahideen fighters and 18,000 Afghan troops. The country was left in ruins. Several million ...

Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO is close to having the number of troops it needs for Afghanistan ... the cases for membership of former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia.