The complexities surrounding derussifying names are an example of how past legacies are still felt in the region, affecting even the most basic life decisions.

YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing ...

President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has sparked decades of theories, but the official narrative has remained the same: ...

Earlier this week, the White House, at the direction of President Trump, released a trove of over 60,000 pages of documents of files form the United States National Archives about the 1963 ...

US President Donald Trump said he thinks Vladimir Putin wants peace. Ukraine and its European allies don’t believe he does.

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 ...

Historically, Russia has responded to strength, not appeasement. As US diplomat and historian George Kennan famously stated ...

You think the Cold War is over? Think again. Russian and American forces are still challenging each other in the Arctic by Jon Bowermaster At 12:4 ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like ...