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 ...

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 ...

To prevent the mistakes of war from being repeated, it is important to preserve the records and memories of the tragedy. The suffering of Japanese people subjected to internment by the Soviet Union ...

In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to ...

August 20 is an important day in history as several notable events took place across the world. The Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, effectively crushing the liberal ...

Was it military pressure, economic collapse, or Reagan’s diplomacy that brought down the Soviet Union? This documentary explores the hidden story behind the end of the Cold War 58 shot, 8 dead, in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots buried in Alaska after concluding his summit with US President Donald Trump. Putin visited Fort Richardson National ...

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 ...