Former Soviet Union

WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot

For the students, many of whom remain closely connected with friends and family in their countries of origin, the issue is not abstract.

Students participate in the hackathon at WIZO Nachlat Yehuda.
A general view of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2025.

America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion

Members of special IRGC forces attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022.

Iran’s IRGC turned revolution into a system of power, profit - opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia May 9, 2026.

Putin says Ukraine war is ending but the global order has already shifted - opinion


What historical events occurred due to hijacking of Soviet Plane in 1970?

As history has shown, the position of informal organizations actually met the interests of the whole world.

 Aeroflot's An-2, the same plane Dymshits-Kuznetsov group tried to hijack

Yom Kippur War: The Middle East Armageddon's uncounted victims - comment

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The 50-year-old Yom Kippur War’s list of casualties should include the lira, the kibbutz, and the Soviet Union.

 THE TEL SAKI memorial site near Moshav Ramat Magshimim on the Golan Heights commemorates IDF soldiers who fell during the fighting there in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

US revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

The revival of the multibillion-dollar effort, known as the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS), comes as China has ramped up military exercises around Taiwan.

Royal Navy ambush submarine seen near Scotland

Russia's Medvedev hints at future Russian invasion of Georgia

"The idea of joining Russia is still popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Medvedev, a former Russian president, wrote in an article.

 Russia's Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a presentation of the BMPT-72 tank, dubbed the "Terminator-2"

Ukraine gets rid of Soviet symbols on Motherland monument in Kyiv

The move has its roots in a movement to “decommunize” - or shed memories of the former Soviet Union - which Ukraine has stepped up since Russia's all-out invasion last year.

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 in Kyiv, Ukraine August 6, 2023.

Israel must immediately bring more olim from the former Soviet Union - opinion

The system of making Aliyah must be immediately changed, adapted, and streamlined, as it was in the 1980s.

 UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport last year.

British World War II planes discovered in Ukraine

In total, 3000 models of the plane had been sent to help the USSR fight off the Nazis from 1941 until 1944. 

Technical personnel prepare one of six British Tornado fighters October 11 before the planes took off from the Royal Air Force base in Brueggen

On this day 60 years ago: Russian astronaut becomes first woman in space

The goal of Tereshkova's mission was to compare the impact of outer space between male and female bodies.

 Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, currently a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, attends a session of the State Duma in Moscow, Russia July 22, 2020.

Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison

Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years.

 Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent deemed a traitor by the government Undated handout photo of former FBI agent Robert Hanssen

American Jews need a Soviet-style activist defense org. - opinion

In using public protests and street demonstrations to attract notice, Soviet Jewish activists changed Jewish history.

 AVITAL AND Natan Sharansky, reunited after 12 years, smile during an airport news conference upon his arrival in Israel, in 1986. The dynamic for Soviet Jewry changed with the founding of SSSJ, says the writer.