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 ...

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

On March 13, Kazakhstan ... countries of the former Soviet Union. He has a Master’s degree in Russian and East European Politics from the University of Oxford. His book, "Soviet Supernova ...

Also known as koreyska, the salad is the creation of ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union, or Koryo-saram ... deserts of what is now Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, thousands of Koryo-saram ...

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

Russia’s central bank has privately warned the Kremlin that the U.S. and OPEC might trigger a sharp drop in oil prices, reminiscent of the 1980s plunge that contributed to the Soviet Union’s ...

The book, which has yet to be translated into ... may have done more than anyone to help the Soviet Union achieve its sudden, shocking nuclear parity with the United States in 1949.

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 ...

In both the USA and Latin America, there is a long-standing belief that the countries of the Americas have a common interest and destiny. Anthony Pagden assesses the prospects for transcontinental ...