On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

Deep in the Arctic, near the edge of the North Pole, a Soviet city once thrived with over a thousand residents. Schools, ...

Lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma have approved in the first reading a bill introducing amendments to the Criminal Code that would establish criminal liability for: ...

Seeing how people lived beyond the Iron Curtain made Tabarovsky dream of immigrating — an aspiration shared by many Jews in ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

Soviet-style photocopier restrictions ultimately failed because they were intrusive and unwieldy, and people committed to evading them. Controls on 3D printers are destined to meet the same end. The ...

As the US and Israel continue to attack Iran, experts debate wisdom of relying on ethnic divisions for change.

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In a historic former Soviet reserve in the magnificent Uzbek mountains, Michaela Strachan and India Latham find rare signs of ...

Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...