Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

INDIANAPOLIS — By April 1979, Georgi Vins had spent eight years in a Soviet Union labor prison in Yakutsk, Siberia. Days ...

Greenland has been home to top-secret U.S. nuclear weapons base. Today its melting ice cap is a top concern as it threatens ...

Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...

The company is about to pour first concrete as part of the construction, the Russian company’s Director General Alexey Likhachev said ...

Nonetheless, Eisenhower signed legislation making Alaska a state on July 7, 1958. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially ...

Geographical exploration is a type of quest, the objective being to discover remote lands. One major era, in the history of ...

Whenever the history of twentieth-century communism is discussed, it will not be long before you find a particular figure ...

The geopolitical landscape in the near future is likely to be shaped by several significant phenomena that could alter the ...

Russia’s propaganda machine uses a calculated strategy—dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay—to manipulate perceptions and ...

The harsh conditions of the tundra conceal old Soviet locomotives. Although years have passed, they remain, rusting away. To ...

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...