Activist, chef, and cookbook author Yevhen Klopotenko is peeling away layers of Soviet-era influence on the table.

In "Kapusta," a cookbook dedicated to vegetables in Eastern European cuisines, Alissa Timoshkina ventures beyond cabbage.

Central Asian countries are setting rivalries aside to build a giant hydroelectric plant originally planned in Soviet times, a bid to strengthen energy and food security and mitigate the effects ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is almost the size of a football field. It serves as a laboratory and living space for ...

Russia forever—one ended centuries of Tsarist rule, and the other put the Bolsheviks in power.

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...

Sushi is about as far from traditional Ukrainian food as you can get. Over the past 20 years, it's become central to the ...

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...

The east Berlin suburb of Marzahn, where Mix-markt is located, didn’t exist until 1977 when the East German regime built a ...

Along with fresh produce and other staples, the Brighton Beach location of Tashkent is known for its extensive hot bar of Central Asian and Soviet food (plus a few western dishes, like “authenti ...

Jackrabbits were numerous decades ago and now are rarer than hen’s teeth in this part of southern Minnesota. In any case, ...