Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...

A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled in one of Moscow’s busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian ...

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

Barrow-in-Furness has crumbled since the end of the Cold War. Will growing military threats revive the nuclear ...

Urban strategies often rely on siloed, one-off interventions that fail to reflect the complexity of social challenges or ...

The conventional wisdom regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is universally accepted by retired ...

The Cold War was a fertile period for designing and manufacturing new military tanks, and some companies really took big liberties with accepted design trends.

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET IMMIGRATION. The growing community of immigrants from RUSSIA and the former Soviet Union is becoming a palpable presence in Cleveland. The influx of newcomers turned into a ...

You wouldn’t recognize it today, but this building became the first restaurant in downtown Sooke, way back at the end of the Second World War. It still stands at the corner of Sooke and Townsend roads ...

Lighthouses, old barracks, abandoned villas: in the list of almost 1,400 state-owned buildings in Sardinia there are many jewels in search of a new life. And of another owner. Now on this front ...

SCIENCE and technology in the Soviet Union was the subject of the first of the two symposia held over the Easter weak-end by the Faculty of Science of Marx House (Marx Memorial Library and Workers ...

SO MUCH. SO AS FOR THAT UPDATE, SO A-F-R ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AND THEY REPORTED A LARGE COMMERCIAL BUILDING FIRE COMING FROM THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE BUILDING. THEY DID SAY THEY GOT THE ...