According to official estimates, more than 206,000 people died in Trostenets. Some recent estimates put the death toll at 546 ...

The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

Poland's first metro line had only 11 kilometers and 11 stations at that time - and it was serviced by USSR-imported rolling ...

Manila, Philippines – As part of Mapúa University’s centennial celebration, Dr. Reynaldo B. Vea, former president of Mapúa and now chairman and CEO of iPeople, Inc., Mapúa’s parent company, launched ...

Over more than 300 years, a complex myth has been created around the Battle of Poltava,” said Lyudmyla Shendryk, a guide who ...

The museum presented this interpretation of history until Ukraine's independence from the USSR in 1991, after which it was ...

Two timely books on how the region responded to the ‘Russia menace’ and Estonia’s transformation into a thriving tech hub ...

An estimated half of them died in the next 18 months of hunger and harsh conditions. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of ...

Trains came and went ... War II dead in which the massive bronze figures of soldiers form the shape of the USSR. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russians have crossed ...

A Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35 at Keflavik Air Base, Iceland (Photo: Hedwig Halgunset). The precedent of the USSR's exported fighter aircraft This aspect is necessary when purchasing any weapons ...

Aleksandr Skobov was born in St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad) in 1957. He trained as a historian at Leningrad State University. In 1976, while still a student, he began participating in ...

but noted that the KGB watched him closely and constantly while he was in the USSR”. It also noted that the file reflected that Oswald was a “poor shot” when he tried target firing in the ...