Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a ...

Col. Andrei Demurenko’s war story began at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., at a moment of hope and peace. It ended with a mortar ...

Russia is remaking Mariupol, which was devastated by a brutal siege in 2022. Ukrainians seeking to move back are finding it ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.

While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed ...

Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

Gyunduz Mamedov, a lawyer-turned-soldier, fears the West will acquiesce in the Kremlin’s bid to undermine justice ...

Britain should look to “make life horrible at sea” for Russian spy ships mapping the UK’s critical undersea cables, a former ...

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, philosophers, poets, anarchists and soldiers contemplate what they have lost, and ...

From Russian Duma dissident to Ukrainian defender, Ilya Ponomarev confronts Putin’s regime and calls out the West’s role in ...