When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

STORY: Ukrainian Leniie Umerova is a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was ...

Paying teenage girls to have babies while they are still in school is controversial in Russia. According to a recent survey ...

From humble beginnings to absolute power, Stalin reshaped a nation with brutal force. His rule was transformative—and ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras ...

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in the USSR in 1942 to solicit international Jewish support for the forces ...

Azerbaijan and Russia are locked in an escalating diplomatic standoff that has underscored Moscow's weakening supremacy in the Caucasus, a strategic region where major powers are vying for ...

Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russia in 2014 and illegally annexed from Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

On a gastronomical tour through the former Soviet republic, Gary Shteyngart learns that resistance comes in many flavors.