Former Soviet satellite state Poland has unleashed the power of its homegrown talent to create faster economic growth and ...

The Kremlin propaganda point that seems most attractive to extremists on the left and the right views Russia as a victim of ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1497, the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence, Italy, took place when followers of Girolamo Savonarola burned thousands of books, art and cosmetics.

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

In attempting to answer these two questions, one must first briefly define collapse. As used by observers ... economic assistance from the former Soviet Union caused a great shock to the North's ...

Sally Novetzke of Cedar Rapids in December 2018 holds mementos of her time as U.S. ambassador to Malta and a book of photos ...

He has spent over 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks fluent Russian. A key safety system was turned off on a U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional ...

It’s the night of February 24th, 1989, and a living nightmare is unfolding over the dark Pacific Ocean. There has been a ...

The ideological consonance that once existed between the Soviet Union and the ANC dissolved with the fall of Soviet communism and the USSR. Today, Russia under Vladimir Putin conducts realpolitik; not ...

Standard Chartered has argued that Trump is unlikely to get his wish to force OPEC to cut the oil price, nting that ..

BS, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1989. Dr. Siddiqi specializes in the history of science ... which covers everything from its beginnings in occupied Germany in 1945 to the collapse of ...