Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

The flow of goods in Manzhouli, China’s main border crossing with Russia, underscores increasingly close ties between the two ...

In July 1944, the Red Army’s Operation Bagration shattered the German Eastern Front, wiping out Army Group Center and opening a massive breach. As Soviet forces surged toward Latvia, the town of ...

German forces were in retreat, reeling from the aftermath of Stalingrad. But at Kharkov, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein ...

Jimmy Hunt, who has died aged 85, was a winsome child actor who appeared in dozens of films before his retirement in 1954, at ...

When they come for the entertainers, it’s a bad sign, from Hazel Scott in the 1950s to late-night hosts today.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — From celebrity chefs and record breaking athletes, to musicians, veteran actors and the Pope, 2025 ...

In the midst of the Red Square, at the heart of Moscow, you find yourself enveloped in a fantastical world, narrating wonders ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...

Two days after he signed legislation that critics said stripped two key anti-corruption agencies of their independence, ...