Soviet Union

An American teen with cancer went to Moscow in 1988 hoping to meet Gorbachev and rid the world of nukes.

Yury Dmitriyev says the case was politically motivated in reaction to his work as a Stalin scholar.

People of colour in Russia tell the BBC how racism has affected their lives.

Belarus goes ahead with a Victory Day parade but in Russia coronavirus forced its cancellation.

Berlin officially surrendered to Soviet forces on 2 May but fighting continued until the war ended.

Russian veterans are marking the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in imaginative ways.

A Czech mayor tells the BBC he fears for his life after allegations of a Russian poisoning plot.

When Rob Bernshteyn and his family escaped the Soviet Union, they initially found the US was worse.

As World War Two was ending the leaders of the UK, US and USSR met to plan post-war peace.

Russia condemns the US ambassador to Poland for saying the Nazi-Soviet pact triggered World War Two.

The BBC's John Simpson recalls witnessing the communist bloc's collapse in three revolutions.

Goar Vartanyan was credited with uncovering a Nazi plot to kill the "Big Three" allied leaders.

The wave of revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe helped shape the continent for decades to come.

Works by Malevich fetch millions - but Belarus still has to prove that this is one of them.

He exposed the practice of declaring dissidents mentally ill in order to detain and discredit them.