On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

In the chaotic early days of Poland's "shock therapy," free market reformers measured their success by the falling price of ...

While 70 per cent of Australians surveyed hold a "very unfavourable" view of Russia, that's only the case for 6 per cent of ...

A Norwegian state-owned company will ask China's polar institute to remove two white stone lions and a name plaque at the ...

Fostering unity is essential to a pope’s job description. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an authoritative ...

This growing connectivity is clearly visible in Heihe, a small city in China's Heilongjiang Province that sits along the ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the dramatic event that marked the fall of European communism. The first sign that freedom was actually working in the former Soviet Bloc would ...

For the North Vietnamese, the S-75 was more than a weapon—it was a symbol of their ability to adapt and resist despite overwhelming odds. Of course, for America, it was also a sign of how far Moscow ...

Relics of war still linger in this German city but the Saxon capital is defined by a defiant spirit of renewal, with a ...

The Communist symbol, of the sickle for the farmer and ... it would only be one definition of even that widely abused word. Russia? China? Cuba? Venezuela? Communist??? Socialist???