The three Baltic states came up with the idea years ago for a high-speed railway spanning 870km (540 miles) across Estonia, ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

A new study led by Oxford University and involving Swansea University has found that the treatment of cancer in twelve former ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

However, Trotsky’s theory of “permanent revolution” set him at odds with Stalin, who favored the consolidation of socialism ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

Both pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin into Weston Airport on dates between November 28 and December 1 last year ...

The Soviet-era Alfa-class submarine was a groundbreaking, high-performance vessel that demonstrated Russian submarine innovation. Built with a titanium hull and powered by a lead-bismuth-cooled ...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for poetry ...

Painting to Scale, the latest exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, boasts rarely shown, ...

It is a relic of Poland’s post-war subordination to communist-ruled Soviet Union. “We are extremely proud because now we count among the very few people in the world who have retrieved the ...