Once the headquarters of the State Protection Authority (similar to the Soviet Union's KGB), the building was where brutal interrogations and the torturing of countless political activists and ...

Rick Steves, renowned expert on traveling throughout Europe, recommends adding this "vibrant gem" of a city to your itinerary on the continent.

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

European travel expert Rick Steves thinks travelers would be wise to add this historic German city that's near Berlin to ...

For NASA, it was a chance to promote the Space Shuttle Program internationally, as the meeting was attended by 650 space scientists and engineers from 32 nations including the Soviet Union. Sally Ride ...

Across the EU, far-right and populist governments are defunding museums, censoring artists and stacking cultural institutions with loyalists, ...

Articles by topic Soviet Union“Mass political repression in the USSR, especially in the period of the ‘Great Terror’ (1937-1938) have become one of the most tragic pages of the history of Ukraine,” ...

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, in 1957, he constructed a telescope so that he and his friends could watch the satellite travel across the night sky.

According to the head of state, the regional history acts as a microcosm of the larger national history, and the museum’s exposition depicts the thorny and centuries-long path of Belarusians to ...

How come? The answer is that in the mid 1920s, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was inspired by the mausoleum when he designed the base for the K1 ...

MORE complete figures relating to the census of the Soviet population taken on January 17, 1939, have been issued by the State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R. The figures cover the entire ...