KYIV, Ukraine — The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer and sickle symbol Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era ...

Putin’s historic task, as he saw it, was to restore Russia as a major actor on the international stage. At the 2007 Munich ...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) has passed draft law No. 2038 on compensation for Ukrainians who were forcibly relocated between 1944 and 1951 from territories that belonged to ...

To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.

Ukraine is celebrating 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union on Wednesday. It is also six months to the day since President Putin sent troops to try to bring Ukraine back into Russia's orbit.

Ukraine's independence had been established, but the country would soon become part of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian pro-independence forces fought pro-Bolsheviks intermittently from 1917 to 1921 .

Item 1 of 5 Workers mount a Ukrainian national emblem to the shield of the 'Motherland' monument replacing the Soviet one, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of the World War II museum ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russians lost the unifying force that communism provided. In recent years, the Russian government has promoted the myth of the Great ...

I had saved about $1,500 when friends asked if I wanted to join their tour group to the Soviet Union. Cost: $1,500. Advertisement. ... so too do Soviet monuments in Ukraine.