There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the ...

How is the Simla Agreement relevant to the UPSC exam? What significance do topics like the Indus Water Treaty, the Rafale-M ...

As the US pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said the Black Sea peninsula will stay with Russia. Why is Crimea, annexed by Vladimir Putin in 2014, so important to Russia? And ...

Tim Marshall analyses the limits of Vladimir Putin's global ambitions from an extract of Prisoners of Geography ...

A 2D representation of Earth, such as a chart or map, can mislead us when visualizing long international routes.

Over time, the NAM became an extension of the Warsaw Pact. Indira Gandhi, as host of the 1983 NAM summit in Delhi, fervently welcomed Fidel Castro of Cuba, a staunch anti-American. During the Cold War ...

With high school spring sports league play underway throughout the state, athletes from Marion and Polk counties have continued to deliver standout performances. Silverton senior JD Arthur ran an ...

Nesselrodt cites the case of Herman Kruk, a Jewish librarian and journalist from Warsaw, who dodged German anti-aircraft fire as he made his way to Lithuania, en route to the Soviet Union ...

and then shipped off to this prison where they are essentially disappeared — disappeared in the way that you would associate with the Soviet Union. Even then, people got out of the gulag.

A $5 million settlement benefiting participants in a retirement plan covering unionized elevator workers received final approval, but the workers’ attorneys are entitled to only some of their ...

Image A map in Vilnius ... what was known as Radio Free Europe in the Warsaw Pact countries and Radio Liberty in the Soviet Union was conceived by Washington as a “surrogate free press.” ...

Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades. In that era ...