Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star ...

A few years after independence from the Soviet Union ... like carpets, jewelry and woodwork. Other good collections include the Ihlas Museum of Folk Musical Instruments (in a Russian-style wooden ...

After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the country not only managed to eliminate illiteracy in the shortest possible time, but also to take leading positions in world science. Archive photo In 1918 ...

The Georgian filmmaker whose anti-Putin drama "The Antique" was nearly blocked from premiering at Venice is set to make her ...

Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich/Odessa Film Studio, 1988 Soviet children grew up on the ‘Three Musketeers’ book, but also on the movie where d'Artagnan speaks… Russian! And, in the 1990s ...

Moldova has narrowly voted for closer ties to the European Union in a referendum dominated by claims of Russian interference ... up influence in the former Soviet state, a country of about ...

The German military has also dug trench systems based on Russian standards and borrowed Soviet-era tanks from museums to provide ... security agreement that Ukraine signed with the EU as a union in ...

Soviet T-55 tanks in front of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin on October 28, 1961 HUM Images A Russian PT-76 light amphibious tank. (Alexander Kovalenko) So far, Russia has lost at least 3,549 tanks ...

killing 66 in the deadliest anthrax outbreak ever. Russian officials also deny the Soviet Union possessed an offensive biological weapons program.

KYIV — Ukraine said Monday that a Russian bombing had damaged a distinctive early Soviet-era modernist skyscraper that has become a symbol of the heavily attacked northeastern city of Kharkiv.