Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million ... A few years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the national capital was moved to Astana.

Authorities in the second-largest ... Soviet Union have moved to downplay their ties to Russia as part of efforts to reshape ...

The Russians lost several battles against Germany, and German forces advanced deep into the Russian Empire, coming close to St. Petersburg (the then-capital ... the city to the Soviet Union ...

Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal ... then the West German capital, chanting “Gorby! Gorby!” while he signed the guest book inside. A public opinion poll ...

The Soviet Union’s forgotten ‘golden city’ is now the gem of Central Asia With world-beating museums and spectacular nature, Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis – remains ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing ... A few years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the national capital was moved to Astana ...