The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

After the war, Korea was divided into northern and southern zones of occupation and the Soviet Union set up a communist state ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

A new study led by Oxford University and involving Swansea University has found that the treatment of cancer in twelve former ...

Russia now reportedly relies on North Korean artillery ammunition for nearly 60% of its supplies as its own massive ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

He shows how, in the second half of the 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to dismantle the compartmentalized nature of Bretton Woods in order to escape its material ostracism and pave a path to global ...

Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

The president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, won re-election on Sunday against a rival candidate she had denounced as “Moscow’s man.

Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union, and many Russians blamed ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

Neft Daşları, meaning “Oil Rocks,” was the world’s first oil-drilling platform. In recent decades, its population has dwindled, while sections have fallen into disrepair and been claimed by the sea.