Today in History for Jan. 15: In AD 345, Paul of Thebes, traditionally considered the first Christian hermit and an ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

VILNIUS – Robertas Povilaitis, the son of a man killed during the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, said on Tuesday he regretted that prosecutors never opened a criminal case against ...

Terrible news to hear Brixton born David Bowie had died. No one in our age has better deserved to be called a genius”. That’s ...

Ruling a country is already complex. One must consolidate legitimacy and maintain firm trust between governance and the people. One must listen closely to the people, not simply make do with official ...

Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham told President Donald Trump to take strong action in Iran amid a brutal crackdown on ...

As Iranians risk their lives in the streets, Europe is left choosing between moral clarity and diplomatic habit ...

Leadership is crippled and politics is hobbled when those who hold the levers of power are caught in circumstances rather unforeseen or unwarranted. The extent to which Joe Biden was unprepared for a ...

Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye, Russia, Soviet Union Birth name: ...

We must all be punished because the British state will not enforce its laws against the dangerous and destructive drug, ...

The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of freedom and an imperial obsession with imposing communism on every corner ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...