While other countries around the world employed Mendelian genetics to increase agricultural yields, Lysenko touted a debunked ...

Russian-born writer Katerina Poladjan has won the Fiction Prize at the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel "Golden Sands," the ...

My mother and her family left Cuba when she was 15 years old, four years after Fidel Castro’s revolution claimed their island ...

The core issue is that the Cuban economy is not functioning properly. Until now, it survived on support from the former Soviet Union and Venezuela, but it can no longer receive such aid. They are in ...

Here’s what to know about the energy, economic, and political crises surrounding Cuba—and the role of Trump and the U.S.

Talk to hockey heroes Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig, and you realize just how much that team has meant to generations of Americans.

Instead of obsessing over the fictional Cheburashka, Russians should be focused on more important things like the rebirth of ...

The documentary Soap Fever takes a look at the success of the American daytime series, The Bold and the Beautiful, and its impact on ...

During the Cold War, the space race pushed both superpowers to develop groundbreaking technology. In response to the American Space Shuttle, the Soviet Union created its own remarkable spacecraft.

In an address to a joint session of Congress, President Harry Truman embraced a global role for the United States and opened a new chapter in U.S. foreign policy.

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as ...

Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine recently crossed the four-year mark. Throughout that time, one of the biggest questions has been: Is this what Russians want?