A new batch of US weapons is ready to be sent to Ukraine, The New York Times confirms. It notes that the new package includes Patriot systems, missiles, and ammunition. These weapons are from existing ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

Georgia was the poster child of post-Soviet countries on their way to democracy and freedom. US lawmakers hope a bill will ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

The rumors that China’s Xi Jinping has been ousted, or is on the verge of losing power, have drawn the attention of China ...

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The voices of tens of thousands of choir singers rang out in the rain in Estonia this weekend, and a huge crowd of spectators erupted in applause, unfazed by the gloomy weather.

More than seventy years later no peace treaty has been signed and Korea remains bitterly divided between communism and capitalism with the most heavily militarized border the world has ever seen ...

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media.

State-led attacks on Russia’s LGBTQ+ community intensified dramatically following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...