After serving as an active Methodist pastor for more than 40 years, I am now retired. My husband is also a retired Methodist pastor, and growing up, our two daughters attended worship in the Methodist ...

Former Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, who left office for the business sector after a general election, was appointed ...

Welcome to Transnistria, a breakaway region recognized internationally as part of Moldova and often seen as the last ...

Road to Revenge, his sequel to the 2022 sleeper hit Sisu, plants us in the grim fringes of Soviet-controlled territory.

Khalid Bakdash became the first communist MP in any Arab country when he was elected to the Syrian parliament in the 1950s. Bakdash’s party was once a major political force, but it faded into ...

The pace of dealing with the communist past has been uneven across Central and Eastern Europe. While Poland intensely debated ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

The probability of changing educational class was 52-53% in China compared to 45-46% in Russia, but roughly 68-81% of China's ...

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...

By Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan A lot has been written about the former Soviet Union since its inception in 1922 and even more so ...

From the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB, generations of secret police enforced obedience through surveillance, ...

From poachers to politics, “Tigers Between Empires” details the 30-year-long international collaboration that set out to study and save Russia’s Siberian tigers.