As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...

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

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When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet ... Union being a workers' paradise". Her memoir, Private Diaries from 1930s Soviet Russia ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and Iran found common ground in viewing the U.S. as a mutual adversary. In 1997, then-Foreign Ministers Evgeny Primakov and Ali Velayati called for ...

Tartous and Khmeimim are Moscow’s only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union. Russia’s foreign ministry said there had been a “frank discussion of the entire range of issues ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country ...

27 (UPI) --The European Union will moved forward with a renewal on Russian sanctions after a deal ... supporters marked the 80th recognition of Soviet Union soldiers liberating Auschwitz on ...