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

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

Waved through a checkpoint this past week by a soldier with a Russian flag on his shoulder ... part of Moldova when both were part of the Soviet Union, first broke away to form a renegade state ...

Though the ships involved were not Russian -- they were flying "flags of convenience" from ... and around the former Soviet Union, as well as news involving cybercrime and espionage.

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

Today in History for Feb. 15: ...

LOT Polish Airlines was officially born on Dec. 29, 1928, when two smaller Polish carriers, Aeroflot (not to be confused with the current Russian one ... from flying aircraft manufactured in the ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

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 ...