Tokayev’s foreign policy marks a calibrated shift that emphasizes national sovereignty, economic pragmatism, and diversified ...

When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...

Seasoned French political scientist Julien Zarifian has published a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

But the war also changed Russia itself far more than most outsiders grasp. No cease-fire, not even one brokered by a U.S.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for ...

Shakespeare’s character Antonio in “The Tempest” says, “What’s past is prologue.” Learn from history or suffer from the ...

Any actions that compromise traffic safety and endanger the lives and health of passengers and railway personnel will be ...

When the Russians did invade, they found the Ukrainian determined to repel the invaders and drive them from Ukraine. That is what is happening and Russia now claims they attacked Ukraine to annex it ...