Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 91 ...

Clad in their 250-year-old fashion, descendants of American Revolutionary War patriots came to Neptune Park Saturday to ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an ...

This tiny "country" occupies a narrow strip of land along the border with Ukraine, but is not actually recognised by any UN ...

If it happens at some point in the future and the post-Soviet republics join ... the possibility that Ukraine and Georgia may join the Eurasian Economic Union in the future.

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Rudi Von Briel/Photodisc via Getty Images ...

Two decades ago, 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.

Georgia marks the 36th anniversary of the April 9, 1989 massacre of pro-independence demonstrators in Tbilisi by the Soviet ...