For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an alternative. The mountainous central Asian country adopted a new anthem in ...

Historian Stephen Kotkin has argued that the greatest surprise discovered within the Soviet archives when they were opened after the Soviet Union’s collapse was that ... from an ensuing ...

it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative ...

Sanctioned tycoon Alisher Usmanov parries Western efforts to oust him from shadow leadership role in world fencing.

A year ago, we spoke with Jeremy Corbyn about Poetry for the Many, a poetry anthology that celebrated hope, resistance, and the power of imagination. This time, our conversation takes a darker turn, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed until further notice the World Friendship Games, seen as Moscow's alternative to ... held in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, when some socialist ...

Here are the 9 underrated places that should be on every bucket list, according to a man who’s been to 175 countries out of ...

Red Son looks at alternative versions of the characters, with a focus on wondering what Superman would be like if he was raised in the Soviet Union. The comic was highly acclaimed, and it seemed ...

In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other ...

China is advancing plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon as part of a joint project with Russia to establish a ...