One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...

It is only necessary that some thousands of men should firmly decide not to give tip. . . . Leon Trotsky wrote these words about the defense of Leningrad in October 1919, when the Whites were ...

The ‘Winter War’ of 1939-1940 or the Russo-Finnish War was fought between the Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet Union ...

In the late 1930s, the Soviet Union took in about nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. These kids, aged roughly from 5 to 12 years old, were placed in boarding schools in Leningrad, ...

The Russian leader was on the line as the “Chukotka,” Russia’s fifth nuclear icebreaker of the Arktika-class, was launching ...

Vladimir Putin has been one of the most influential, controversial and powerful figures globally for over two decades.

The Kiev-class hybrid aircraft carriers were the Soviet Union’s attempt to counter U.S. naval dominance during the Cold War.

As passions continue to rise in this country, it is interesting to compare our situation with that of the English Civil War ...

a dilemma underlined by the book’s subtitle, “The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice.” Image As too often happens, this conundrum was an effect of war: In 1941 ...

Among those with budgets that exceed the weekly cost of the war in Ukraine are Moscow, St Petersburg, Moscow Oblast and Leningrad Oblast, as well as regions with a developed mining and processing ...

The Amber Room was a royal chamber that stood for more than two decades in Catherine Palace in Pushkin. Then, the Nazis ...

Imagine Fest 2024 features the works of global and local artists from countries such as the US, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan among ...