Memory laws pose a set of distinct challenges for modern democracies, including in the realm of human rights law. In the four ...

Eastern European and Balkan cuisines — or more broadly, the flavours of the former Soviet Union. As any foodie would vouch, Dubai's dining scene has always been a melting pot of global flavours.

The Yakovlev Yak-9 and North American P-51 Mustang are two of the most infamous fighters of the Second World War.

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

Europe's second largest country, Ukraine is a land of wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry in the east. While Ukraine and Russia share common historical origins, the ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

The nation became so close to the Soviet Union that it almost joined it. Even as a European Union and NATO member, business with Russia still thrived, not least for oil giant Lukoil PJSC.

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 ... Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia ...

Impact Link When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 ... Yet after Moscow deployed SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Eastern Europe, Carter responded by calling for both diplomacy ...

Slovenia has drawn global attention and its fair share of misinterpretation. Now its residents are saying enough is enough.

In January 1919, two disparate Ukrainian states – the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic – merged into one.