Map of NATO countries NATO has 31 member countries, highlighted in dark blue, and is expected to have Sweden, in light blue, join the alliance. ... After the Soviet Union broke up, ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

These are some of the newest countries on the map, with one of the newest only being established in 2011. ... like the Soviet ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence.

A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on the 20th century — and still has an influence today.