Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

The era of the Cold War had seen a different G2 — the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union — and nations were forced to align ...

In the brutal winter of 1941-42, the Soviet Union launched a massive counteroffensive aimed at crushing Germany’s hold near ...

Georgy Zhukov's rise to one day become the Hero of the Soviet Union did not happen overnight. Instead, the son of a poor tradesman has slowly worked himself up the ranks of the Red Army using his grit ...

COURT HOUSE – Refugees are a natural consequence of war, as the civilian population flees bombs, tanks and advancing soldiers ...

Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that is why in today's Russian ideological labyrinth, in which chauvinism is ...

Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...

By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing ...

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, its few remaining inhabitants shuffle to find food or water under the ...

A police officer has been arrested for allegedly making disappear, in 1980, the glove of the killer who murdered Piersanti ...

The Korean Central News Agency said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to ...

Finland’s Stubb told Firstpost that Ukraine must decide how to end the war with Russia but should “learn from our mistake,” ...