Baltic representatives attend the inauguration of synchronisation with the EU electricity system in Vilnius, 9 February, 2025 ...

But it also has reminders of its Soviet era, with the occasional grey Brutalist ... And for all things political, you should head to the House of Signatories - where on February 16, 1918, the ...

“There were around 22 sanatoriums here in the Soviet era," Lasha Kutateladze ... water and spa facility and Stalin reportedly had a house near the hotel. Frozen in time and deep in the hillside ...

M. Gessen won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

Tskaltubo in Georgia was once one of the largest spa towns in the Soviet Union, with hundreds of thousands of people visiting ...

The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...

In today’s Russia, the phenomenon of widespread conformism and apathy that the Soviet-era dissidents confronted has reappeared as a crucial part of the country’s trajectory. Even many of today ...

A driver-mechanic with the call sign Molfar (right), the unit's leader call-signed Grizzly (center) and a gunner with the call sign Psycho are on a BMP-1, a modernized Soviet-era infantry fighting ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

President Trump announced he's releasing files related to the JFK assassination, the subject of conspiracies for decades.

The Travel Show meets 'van lifers' who sold their homes and now spend their lives on the road. From the Mouse Bunker to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, the Cold War buildings that changed history.