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INS Tamal has been built at Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russia, and is the last warship to be inducted from a foreign ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most ...

In the Georgian highland village of Ghorjomi, Friday prayers in the local mosque are always packed, says imam Tamaz Gorgadze.

When Moldovans go to the polls in parliamentary elections on September 28, it will be the third time in less than a year – ...

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

The voices of tens of thousands of choir singers rang out in the rain in Estonia this weekend, and a huge crowd of spectators ...

State-led attacks on Russia’s LGBTQ+ community intensified dramatically following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

A cold snap has begun in Russian-Azerbaijani relations. And already the second in a year. In these conditions, it is worth ...

"Live Not By Lies!" argues that parts of the West, particularly Britain, are in the grips of "soft totalitarianism." ...

The Russian Far East, which stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific, is vast and contains most of what China ...

It was shared on the Telegram channel Polska Grupa Informacyjna, one of 22 Polish-language channels, with more than 150,000 ...