The contrasting fortunes of five people adjusting to the shifting landscape of post-Soviet Russia forms the basis of a Sundance Film Festival documentary "My Perestroika." Director Robin Hessman said she hoped her film, which is entered in the US documentary competition, would give audiences the opportunity to see how "complex and multi-faceted" life in the former USSR was. "It's ...

The United States is repeating the mistakes that the Soviet Union made in Afghanistan, Russian veterans say, convinced the USSR's disastrous near decade-long war there harbours deep lessons for Western forces. "It is now (nearly) nine years since the coalition invaded Afghanistan and nothing has changed," said retired Lieutenant General Ruslan Aushev, 55, who served five years in Afghanistan ...

Russia and the United States are close to deciding their nuclear weapons disarmament treaty, President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday, ahead of talks to hammer out the new deal due to resume in February. "The negotiations are going well, we agree on 95 percent of the issues in the new deal", the Russian leader said, cited by Russian agencies from southern ...

Today is Sunday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2010. There are 355 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 10, 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapsed, trapping hundreds in the rubble; during rescue efforts, a fire broke out — up to 145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland ...