You know that feeling of panic that readers have — the fear that you will run out of reading, that you will have pockets of empty time but ... ticket printouts, passports, phones and seven ...

The inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess begins on Monday in Salisbury. The 44-year-old mother of three died in July 2018 after being exposed to a chemical weapon in the Wiltshire town of Amesbury.

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

Alisher Qodirov’s outspoken criticism of Russian chauvinism and the Soviet legacy marks a significant shift in Uzbekistan’s political discourse, sending a clear message to Moscow. On September ...

Viv Groskop gathers some of the best Soviet satire and proletariat punchlines. When I was interviewing Russians for the documentary It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire ...

China's 75th anniversary of Communist rule was marked quietly amid fears of a Soviet-style collapse. President Xi Jinping emphasizes party loyalty and ideological discipline, wary of ...

BUDAPEST, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A top aide of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has triggered outrage by suggesting that Hungary would have fared better by not resisting the 1956 Soviet invasion ...

“He takes the advice of the central bank governor, because he is very well aware that this is what brought down the Soviet Union. “But this is a very high interest rate, and it's not really ...

About 10% of total defence spending will go to military personnel payments, which have also hit a post-Soviet high with the minimum annual wage in the first year of service at the frontline ...

Vladimir Putin is all too aware that economic pressure brought down the Soviet Union as he is forced to hike defence spending and slash social benefits to fund his war in Ukraine, according to Western ...

Despite initially fearing they had found themselves in an austere-looking former Soviet backwater, prone to power cuts and intolerable heatwaves, the couple say moving there was an incredible ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...