“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

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

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 ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

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 ...

The Russian Navy exclusively uses titanium-based submarines that are much more durable, yet the huge maintenance costs bar ...

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

By rejecting the lessons of the previous century, the president has undermined America’s advantage over China and Russia.