The 1st Separate Czechoslovak Battalion was the first foreign formation in the Red Army during World War II. Six of its ...

The Chinese government, through its Foreign Ministry, has reiterated its opposition to the United States’ deployment of ...

Alexei Moskalyov’s daughter Masha was waiting for him at the gates of the penal colony where he served a year and a half for ...

A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the ...

The state historical park formerly called Russian Fort Elizabeth has a new name, Paulaula, reflecting its importance to Hawaiian history.

Activists wave Russian flags in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine’s Donetsk region during an event marking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday in the course of Russia’s war ...

Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...

An evening of two one-act ballets in May explicitly explored the necessity of Ukrainians deciding for themselves the future ...

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had taken control of two settlements in eastern Ukraine, the latest gains in their drive to secure the Donbas ...

Big picture: Here's what you need to know at the start of the week After Russian forces reached the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk last week, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ...

MOSCOW - Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations, was targeted in a massive cyberattack on Monday that a Ukrainian government source said ...

By Marc Santora Viktoria Roshchina, a 27-year-old reporter, had been detained by the Russian authorities after reporting from occupied territories in Ukraine. By Constant Méheut More than ...