To sum up, Russia’s future in the changing world order depends on its strategic maneuvering in an increasingly complex ...

The Central Asian region is home to approximately 79 million people spread across five nations. It was part of the Soviet ...

In a major mining region of Ukraine, President Trump’s proposal to collect profits from mineral wealth is meeting with a mix ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.

Ukrainian ceasefire looks no closer, Sir Alex Younger tells The Independent how the UK is too detached from the threat posed ...

After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...

Many of these countries were primarily encouraged/forced to make off-dry and fortified wine for Russia and the ex-Soviet ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

Vladivostok, the ‘ruler of the East’, is preparing to celebrate the 165th anniversary of its founding. City Day, as they call ...

Southeast Asia is an especially appealing strategic frontier in Moscow’s dream of a multipolar world. But the reality of ...

The display includes confessions and surveillance reports relating to Britain’s most notorious double agents, who spied for ...