COMMENTARY: The declaration of religious freedom shattered the communist claim that there was no sanctuary of personal ...

Nestled between Moldova and Ukraine, Transnistria, a Soviet-era relic, maintains its own flag, army, and currency, yet lacks ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.

The Su-27 entered service in 1985 as the USSR’s premier agile heavyweight fighter—long denied to U.S. evaluators. -After the ...

Millions of Azerbaijanis around the world celebrate the 107th anniversary of the tricolor Azerbaijani flag, a state symbol of ...

The real turning point was 1787. As the narrator explains, delegates in Philadelphia swapped the failing Articles for a ...

Croatia has marked the anniversary of the fall of the eastern town of Vukovar, which was demolished by the Serb-led Yugoslav ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

Two Roman Catholic priests who were imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were ...

The old adage that “sports and politics don’t mix” is both totally false and deeply cynical. Sports is very political.

More than two decades ago, on January 24, 2004, I landed in Baghdad as a legal advisor, assigned an office in what was then known as the Green Zone. It was raining and cold, and my duffle bag was ...

For Argentines, it was just the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration. But for a Russian gay couple joining this month’s ...