In a year marked by wars, extreme weather and general wickedness, many dispatches defaulted to a distinctly dark tone. But as ...

Ukrainian officials say the bungled attempt to steal the remains was part of a continuing Russian effort to repatriate the ...

This gigantic monument in Bulgaria sits atop a desolate mountain and offers a grandiose (albeit crumbling) example of ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

The statues of Pushkin and Babel have prompted the biggest controversies because their writing is so central to the myth of ...

Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current president wants to undo that.

Adjusted for inflation, that matches levels that bankrupted the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The purpose of the G7’s convoluted oil sanctions was – until a month ago – to eat into Putin’s ...

Especially since Russia’s assault on Ukraine in 2022, the entire country of 2.5m or so people, with a few peculiar ...

Radiation spread across a vast distance as well. Soviet weapons designers strove to surpass the Americans, both in yield and in the propaganda victory that a weapon larger than the one used at ...

Known as the “Golden City of 100 Spires,” Prague boasts a fairytale medieval Old Town, historic churches and synagogues, and ...

As 2024 comes to an end, there have been approximately 385 mass shootings in the United States, which continues to be a ...

Uzbekistan lives comfortably in several centuries but is also a forward-looking nation, Deepa Gahlot discovers on a visit to ...