In 1831, a mystery eruption occurred, causing a 1°C drop in global temperatures only recently identified in a paper by scientists.

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, or “Uncle Joe” to ...

Trump and Kushner are set to begin building a luxury resort on an Albanian island that once served as a Soviet weapons base.

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Ray Kresek has been struck by lightning three times. He’s watched colleagues die in fires. He saw a plane knock down a fire with dish soap. And he was among responders who pulled the bodies of 44 Air ...

Secretary-General Mark Rutte is getting allies to spend trillions more on defense—and keep Donald Trump on side.

Borders shift, empires collapse, and sometimes entire nations disappear. In this fascinating dive into world history, we ...

The CIA has released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents reveal that Kennedy met with the CIA to share ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Publication Cross-Border Crime in the Former Soviet Union Author: Mark Galeotti Abstract " For you [Westerners], borders represent barriers and termini, for us they represent opportunities." (Chechen ...