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 ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

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 ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late ... The personality they chose as independent Russia’s first president — Boris ...

In the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukraine has been fighting for more than seven months, people say they want peace but ...

Last February, a Ukrainian company commander going by his callsign Veter was ordered to send his people to reinforce another ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...