Hecker’s story is a grizzly odyssey. The book is full of crisp soundbites. One I liked best, towards the end of the book, quotes someone saying that Russia has become, not an emerging economy, but a ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

No census. Even Iraq had conducted its post-Covid census by now after 40 years. No data on deaths due to Kumbh mismanagement.

According to IEEE Spectrum, Ukraine doesn’t have any mineable rare earths. The publication quotes Erik Jonsson, senior ...

In Ukraine, the kobzar tradition endures with musicians preserving centuries-old cultural heritage while adapting to modern ...

A system based on apartheid cannot be defended. Nor can systems, whether clerical (as in Iran) or anti-clerical (as in the Soviet Union), which deny freedom of worship to some or all of the population ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

The biggest surprise of all on the end of the American dream, though, is that for tens of millions of Americans, this is not ...

A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor General's ...

When prices fell, the economy hit the rocks with spectacular geopolitical consequences such as in 1991 when the Soviet Union crumbled. The oil price collapse of the 1980s made it impossible for ...