As countries begin to introduce vaccine mandates, images purporting to show protests in areas with COVID-19 restrictions have routinely made the rounds on social media, though many pictures were ...

Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin to defy the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the critical hours when Russian democracy was saved - and share their ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- Former Soviet dissidents are crying foul after being denied permission to commemorate the failed August 1991 coup that led to the fall of the Soviet Union, declaring Moscow city officials' ...

As dawn broke on Aug. 19, 1991, tanks and armored cars converged on Moscow and Soviet citizens received the stunning news that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been overthrown in a coup. At 6:06 a.m., ...