After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

Russia and Japan dispute ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands, also known as the Northern Territories.

A group of polar bears has taken up residence at an abandoned research station formerly used by the Soviet Union.

The government in Tbilisi is friendly to Moscow. It is being challenged by protesters who want closer ties to the West. A ...

The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody ...

Among the more than 350 of the former KGB’s files about former President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination have what appears to be a random letter from a then-11-year-old Hamilton girl.

Not so much The Hunt for Red October as a hunt for the nearest mechanic. Thus guffawed Nato secretary general Mark Rutte at ...

Marta Fedoriw of North Whitehall Township. Born in a refugee camp in Germany, she came to America at the age of seven.

These three sentences—spoken by a U.S. Army officer in Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite —are said quietly and ...

Gould-Davies, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as ...

One of Putin’s true wins is his quarter century in power. Although Russia is a militant autocracy, the reason for Putin’s ...