The nonprofit Qaravan is working to help immigrants fleeing homophobia, discrimination, and war in the former Soviet countries of Eastern Europe.

Thin gray smoke drifts beyond the patchwork of Soviet-era apartment blocks, historical buildings, and hillside vineyards that ...

In Soviet times, being a pro-Ukrainian artist was dangerous. The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, ...

Two Moscow-based architectural heritage activists have renovated a Soviet avant-garde apartment and are now renting it on Airbnb. In the property listing, Alexander Dudnev and Konstantin Gudkov ...

Nestled in Moscow's Mira Avenue, the State Central Cinema Museum boasts a unique permanent exhibition ... Aggression (1931-45) and the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War.

A red installation of the word “Victory” sits outside Yubileiny Palace of Culture with its facade decorated with a mosaic portrait of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) ...

They also built the administrative building for the power plant, where a unique mosaic has been preserved ... The buildings were typical Soviet-style houses, with modest one-room apartments. Still, ...

I’ll be honest, before I started looking into living in Latvia I couldn’t have named a single city or located it on a map.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

when the Soviet Union was on the brink of dissolution. He initially built a reputation in Kharkiv by superimposing photographic slides and projecting them in private apartments. Once he was no ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...