Just weeks earlier, hardline communists had attempted a coup to save the Soviet Union. Tanks rolled through Moscow. The world watched nervously. The nuclear superpower that had defined the Cold War ...

Editor’s note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a ...

1.6 million – that’s the number of attendees that came to watch Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of ...