A group of polar bears has taken up residence at an abandoned research station formerly used by the Soviet Union.

Among the more than 350 of the former KGB’s files about former President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination is what appears to be a random letter from a then-11-year-old Hamilton girl.

Russia and Japan dispute ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands, also known as the Northern Territories.

The death toll from the Tajik-Kyrgyz border skirmishes has reached 100, according to officials. The two former Soviet states clashed last week in an armed border dispute reportedly involving the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a state visit to Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings ...

April 17, 2025: Ukraine’s borders were established in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed into fourteen new countries. Three years later, anxiety over Ukraine possessing some Soviet era nuclear ...

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After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

It probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that speed is one of the key factors in designing fighter, attack, and interceptor aircraft. These military machines are used to fly out and ...

Scores of sanctions from the US, EU, UK and others have weakened Russia’s economy, but not its resolve to carry on fighting.

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...