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

Kazakhstan is claiming that a group of international oil companies has been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue, after ...

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

His recent publications include “The FSB Literati: The First Prize Winners of the Russian Federal Security Service Literature Award Competition, 2006-2018,” Intelligence and National Security 34:5, ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had ...

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 ...

The world record for most time spent in space is held by Russian cosmonaut and Hero of Russia Oleg Kononenko, who has spent 1,110 days, 14 hours, 57 minutes in space over five missions ...

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 ...

Russians made up about a fifth of Central Asia’s population before the Soviet collapse. The figure is now five percent, with ...

ASTANA – Turash Abuov is one of Kazakhstan’s few composers who fought in World War II, using his music to capture both the darkness of war and the resilience of bravery. He continued to compose ...