During the 1930s, the Soviet Union’s in fluence grew steadily in the far-west Chinese province of Sinkiang, ... Soviet border guards intruded onto Chen Pao 16 times.

“I’m not sad the Soviet Union was gone. Yes, there was no official border, but Russia’s attitude was always that Ukraine was its little sister,” said Vladimir, the ice fisherman.

Length: 1,926 miles; Year established: 1991-2023; Problems: During the Cold War, Norway was the only NATO member with a direct border on the Soviet Union, and now Russia.

The three Tajik construction workers were quietly mending a road near the Panj River last month when they stumbled on a group of men with assault rifles who had crossed over from Afghanistan in ...

In a protest to Moscow, Peking’s foreign ministry charged last week that Soviet border guards had advanced 1¼ miles into Sinkiang’s Yumin County and opened fire on Chinese guards carrying out ...