Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it’s coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
Being soft on Russia has never worked, and history proves it
Historically, Russia has responded to strength, not appeasement. As US diplomat and historian George Kennan famously stated ...
Russian cosmonaut who spent 14 months in space left scientists shocked after health was assessed
Roughly, he spent a total of 14 months and 17 days in space uninterrupted; a record to this day. It had meant to be 16 months ...
Lithuanian defense minister: Only way to negotiate with Russia is with a 'gun on the table'
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania Dovilė Šakalienė's advice on how to deal with Russia: "The only good ...
How did nine hikers end up dead, burnt and radioactive in the Soviet mountains?
The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...
Fashion Week in Moscow
A model wears a creation by late Soviet and Russian designer Slava Zaitsev on a runway of the Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, ...
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...