The celebrations marking 34 years since the country regained its independence with the end of the Soviet Union were an ...

Before 1939, Rhode Island-sized Transnistria was home to around 300,000 Jews. But after Nazi troops occupied the area in July 1941, they began carrying out mass executions — not only of local Jews ...

This breakaway region of Moldova, known to the rest of the world as Transnistria, is home to about 465,000 people — down 35% from the 706,000 who lived there in 1990, one year before the Soviet Union ...

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union launched ...

Vladmir Putin wants Ukraine to give up the Donbas region in exchange for peace. Chicago-area Ukrainians say it would be like ...

A new pilot program with 100 preschools will trial the "Converations about Important Things" series that is officially tailored to kids aged 3 to 7.

On one side, girls are arrested for waving union flags; men for admitting to liking bacon and comedians for telling jokes.

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost ...

Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov completed this ambitious design in just a few months, with construction taking place in deep secrecy amid the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Research and ...

Extensive restoration works to a coat of arms that has stood in a town hall since the late 19th Century have been completed. The George II royal coat of arms was gifted to Blandford Forum Town Council ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...

Russia has flipped Donald Trump 'a middle finger the size of the Statue of Liberty' after Vladimir Putin's right-hand man arrived for peace talks in a T-shirt glorifying the Soviet Union. Foreign ...