The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Nov 30, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Kyrgyzstan votes Sunday in a snap parliamentary election, a contest with no ...

SOLDIERS slaughtered in the snow with masses of frozen bodies piling up – this is what happened the last time Russia dared to ...

Just as the economic waste of centralised planning is being realised, the failure on the agricultural front is also making a ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

November, Russia occupied nearly a fifth of Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

The Russian juggernaut has always had a grand vision of its expanse and territoriality since the Czarist times. Kremlin believes that the disintegration of the Soviet Union can be tidied over and some ...

Kirill Dmitriev has emerged as a key player in drafting a new proposal to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine. But he is not a ...

Under heavy sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its courting of African governments with offers of military cooperation, weapons, grain and fertilizers. It’s also ...