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 ...

Soviet penal units made up of disgraced soldiers, political prisoners, and others the Red Army deemed expendable. In this video, we uncover what life was like in these front-line punishment battalions ...

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 ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

The world stood on the edge of nuclear conflict as a U.S. president held firm and took radical action to end that threat ...

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 ...

Some of the greatest players in NHL history have donned the Winged Wheel, and over the years, Detroit Red Wings fans have been able to count themselves as some of the most fortunate in professional ...

MOGILEV, 5 July (BelTA) – The battles on the Dnieper line in Belarus in many ways contributed to the Soviet victory at Moscow and shaped the trajectory of the Great Patriotic War, Belarusian ...

Shakman, who previously worked with Malkovich on his 2014 independent feature debut crime thriller Cut Bank, gushed about how ...

There are dozens of fighter jets that were never shot down from other fighters, including, the F-15, F-22, MiG-31, Saab's JAS 39 Gripen, and the Harrier.