The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...

Western sanctions are weakening Moscow’s ties with former Soviet republics and hindering its economic expansion into the ...

The house, which belonged to a Polish military family before Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, lies next to the site of the former death camp, now the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The tech billionaires who attended the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump are not the oligarchs seen in Russia or ...

Three Baltic nations have disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid as part of a plan designed to further integrate with the European Union and boost security. Estonia, Latvia ...

"No fuel spillage was recorded, there is no threat to the life and health of the crew," the governor, Valery Limarenko, said ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...

The state oil company in Azerbaijan has not been privatized, but part of the Kazakh oil sector has been privatized using traditional cash sales of shares and investment tenders. The enterprises in the ...

WQAD-TV TNS COLUMBIA, S.C. A man who is now a former researcher at the University ... Harchegani, a legal, permanent resident of the United States and an Iranian citizen, ultimately traveled ...

Research on the former Soviet region explores geopolitics of various states, the domestic, foreign and security policy of Russia, and the conflict in Ukraine. Key projects currently include responding ...