Sovereignty was officially transferred on December 27, 1949. On January 25, 1950, after some hesitation, the Soviet Union officially recognized Indonesia upon request from the Netherlands. On February ...

A Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on Monday shattered much of the Derzhprom building, one of the most celebrated landmarks in Ukraine’s second city, dating from the 1920s. Six people were ...

Despairing curators resorted to the next best thing: they hid the room’s walls behind drab wallpaper ... some by the Soviet Union, have been undertaken. Theories have abounded about its ...

After World War II, the family sold the house to the Chinese government, which within weeks resold it to the Soviet Union. The house then served as the Soviet Mission to ... and the nineteenth-century ...

In the spring of 1980, six years before Mikhail Gorbachev introduced “glasnost” to the Soviet Union, Modernism gallery brought Russian avant-garde [1910-1930] art to the West Coast of the United ...

At a time when populists pose a serious threat to democracy, our elected representatives need to adhere to high standards in public life, and be seen to do so ...

killing 66 in the deadliest anthrax outbreak ever. Russian officials also deny the Soviet Union possessed an offensive biological weapons program.

Sailing confidently into the tech accessories market this week is a new range of braided cables hoping to encapsulate the fresh vibes of summer. Created by Native Union, the latest cable collection is ...

Georgians went to the polls on Saturday in the most important election since the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. A gaggle of opposition coalitions set out to jointly bring an ...

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched ‘Sputnik 2’ and made history by sending the first-ever living creature to orbit Earth, a dog named Laika. The flight, which was meant to test the safety ...

After spending years in the shadows, Ivanishvili – who made his billions in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as Georgia’s prime minister from 2012 to 2013 ...