In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev approved the transfer of Crimea from the Russian Soviet Republic to the Ukrainian ...

The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.

MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. The Soviet Union, and later Russia, expressed readiness to join NATO but realized they weren’t welcome there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his combined ...

Author recounts 1977 Soviet visit and concludes socialism produced shortages Argues socialism undermines individual initiative and fuels black markets Warns recent U.S. socialist victories mirror past ...

In Ulyanovsk, the opponents of the construction of a Chinese cement factory belonging to the Anhui Conch Company intend to conduct a protest on 6 October 2017. Aleksey Kurinny, a parliament member ...

The buildup of US naval forces in the Caribbean, boosted by the recent arrival near Latin America of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, has raised speculation that both the United States and ...

Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking — especially when the country’s history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression. It’s a task taken on by the ...

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways. “When I walk down the street ...

The war betwen Russia and Ukraine has been raging since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and both nations have reached deep into their respective bags of tactical tricks. Some of Ukraine's choices might ...

"It's hard to tell the difference now between the Gulags and the United States," Kimmel joked following his return to air Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Jimmy Kimmel Live! featured an appearance from ...