Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in ...

BOSTON — A Vietnamese national living in Braintree has pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a dead 13-year-old for several years, eventually using the stolen name to become a Melrose firefighter ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of Communism that she ...

A Vietnamese teacher of English has achieved an overall IELTS score of 9.0 in his 20th IELTS attempt, using ChatGPT to improve his kills. Nguyen Thanh Tung, 30, achieved the perfect score last month, ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

This week, she and her husband, John Bilinski, will open Pho Bemidji, a Vietnamese restaurant, at 414 Beltrami Ave. NW in downtown Bemidji. It will open Friday, March 14, and will serve from 11 a ...

Vietnam’s unique geography and the fierce North Vietnamese communist guerrillas ... too tempting—and easy—of a target for skilled NVA soldiers or Viet Cong guerillas to pass up.