On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...

China poses a significant challenge to U.S. economic dominance, leading in 37 of 44 hi-tech strategic areas. Despite slowing ...

Kazakhstan, the region’s largest economy, has condemned the invasion, refused to recognise Russia’s territorial gains and made an effort to demonstrate compliance with western sanctions. Neighbouring ...

Oil and gas rich Kazakhstan has been governed in an authoritarian style since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, though Tokayev has loosened some controls since taking over from longtime ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...

17): 1) Leonid Petrovich Serebriakov, who from 1919 to 1921 held Stalin’s present post, Secretary General of the Communist Party, and in 1929 was president in Manhattan of the Soviet trade ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

The times of empty shelves and shortages are returning. Lukashenka has appointed a new Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade. And immediately set him unsolvable tasks. For example, “to study ...