A derailed tanker train burns. A bombed military draft office smolders. A hooded figure runs into the night, leaving behind a Molotov cocktail burning at the base of a Lenin bust. These images are not ...

A so-called "referendum" to join Russia announced by pro-Russian authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine has raised alarm bells globally as ...

Pop quiz: Russian troops have been operating in how many former Soviet republics so far this year? The answer requires an extended journey from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. The obvious starting ...

Russia's apparent targeting of ethnic minorities in Vladimir Putin's war and partial mobilization will continue to backfire on the Russian leader's war efforts, a human rights group has said. "Putin ...

Through research conducted between 2014 and 2017 in three of Russia’s ethnic republics (Buryatia, Karelia, and Tatarstan), Stewart examines the ways in which regional identity fits into the Kremlin’s ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In his televised speech to the Russian nation on Feb. 21, ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on Thursday, allegedly called for the formal recognition of the Russian-backed separatist "republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as independent of Kyiv ...

The Soviet Union is long gone, but Russian troops are active throughout the former Soviet republics. In fact, Russian soldiers have been operating in five former republics this year. Russian leader ...

The 16 Soviet Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are just the beginning. There are 189 races and peoples in the Soviet Union and they speak 150 languages, practice 40 religions, ...