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 ...

Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a prominent figure in the Union of ...

The German government and Analena Baerbock’s Foreign Ministry are excluding Russia from the commemoration because they are ...

Xi Jinping, China's Party General Secretary and President, arrived in Hanoi at noon on Monday, beginning his two-day state ...

This is Xi's fourth state visit to Vietnam as China's top leader, and the second within his current term. It demonstrates the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will ...

WARSAW (Reuters) -With higher U.S. tariffs postponed by 90 days, European Union finance ministers pledged unity on Friday in negotiating a trade deal with Washington during that window ...

pushing it towards the European Union as it scrambled to contain the fallout. While there was relief that Trump temporarily lowered his tariffs on Wednesday, for advocates of stronger ties the ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.