For a brief moment it seemed like Russia would allow liberal journalists space to work. Then Vladimir Putin went in another ...

Researchers have found evidence of an Ottoman fortress in the Black Sea city of Odesa that had long proved elusive.

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Nearly a year after a monument was stolen from a Knox County park, local officials gathered Wednesday for the unveiling of a replacement.

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese culture and goods have become ubiquitous in Moscow.

It’s been a tough week for Bryan Kohberger’s defense team. Defense lawyers for Kohberger, the 30-year-old accused of killing four University of Idaho students in their Moscow, Idaho, home in ...

Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago.

The Lenin statue in Osh. (Photo: Adam Harangozó/Wikimedia Commons) For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above ...

Statues of those responsible for them should be raised on lofty plinths and erected everywhere. So numerous are these achievements that one is at a loss to know where to begin handing out the laurels.

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow’s busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...