an outcome that could solidify Moscow’s hold on a former Soviet state that was once seen as moving toward the West. With almost all votes counted, the ruling Georgian Dream party was ahead with ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strike on Kharkiv’s Derzhprom (State Industry) building, one of the most striking examples of Soviet-era constructivism architecture and dubbed the ...

A new modern art museum has opened in Warsaw and before you see any of the art inside, the building itself is a display of architectural intent for the new cultural centre in the Polish capital.

For some, the resulting current climate is reminiscent of the atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion under Soviet Communist rule. Olga Podolskaya is a former municipal deputy for the Tula region, ...

Russia is expanding and renovating a Soviet-era laboratory that was once used for bioweapons research on the viruses that cause smallpox and Ebola. Unusual activity was first captured at Sergiev ...

Reasons for the Cold War Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The Cuban Crisis Why the USA lost the war in Vietnam Managing the Cold War 1962-85 ...

Japan’s Rio Takeda won her first LGPA title as she claimed the Toto Japan Classic on Sunday, defeating Marina Alex in a six-hole playoff. Here’s a look at how the $2 million purse was paid out: ...

At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born, a line of guides is waiting to tell you the story of the local boy who made it big. They can list ...

A form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924, characterised in painting by rigorously optimistic pictures of Soviet life painted in ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

Ivanishvili, a billionaire who raked in a fortune in banking and the computer industry after Georgia's break from the Soviet Union, campaigned on a platform of keeping Georgia out of the Ukraine War.