In tonight’s CNN-hosted debate, incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden stated that in his opinion Putin “has made one thing clear” and that is that he wants to “re-establish” the “Soviet Empire.” Biden ...

Was the USSR a true empire or a union of equals? 🇷🇺 Dive deep into the political structure, ethnic control, and ideological ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the Chair of St. Peter. Wojtyla took the name Pope John Paul II, having succeeded ...

Here is a typical example, by that notorious Russophobe, former President Joe Biden: “The fact is that Putin is a war ...

In this tremendous historical research project conducted in various countries, Kirasirova draws from Russian, Central Asian, and Middle Eastern studies in looking at how the Soviet Union sought to ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. To appreciate the power of a myth, let’s take a quick visit to post-Soviet ...

“The most banned book of all time in America” is being lived out on the streets of one big city after another in the United ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - It won't exactly mean going back to the USSR, but Vladimir Putin is laying the foundations of a huge trading bloc which opponents see as an attempt to recreate at least part of the ...

What does it mean to be Kazakhstani? Scholar Diana T. Kudaibergen explores the title question – “What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? Power, Identity and Nation-Building” – in the context of ...

HT chronicled the ”Match of the Century” – played in Reykjavik, Iceland – which became as much a clash of cultures as of ...