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

A 350-page Russian document on the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy is grabbing lots of eyeballs, not for what it says about the 1963 assassination, but for a map of a bridge once ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...