Lauri Törni, also known as Larry Thorne, fought in three different armies during his lifetime. Starting in the Finnish Army ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and suffered millions of starvation deaths in the 1930s as the Soviet Government ordered nearly all Ukrainian crops exported, leaving little food for the ...

A paved road on the Lithuanian border with the Russian exclave Kaliningrad gradually turns into a dirt track, and there, by ...

The decision was made following a call between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Faced with an increasingly aggressive Russia and mixed messages from the US, Warsaw is ramping up its defensive capabilities ...

The peoples of Central Europe have a habit of being indigestible to great continental empires. By the Gorbachev years, the Soviet Union had become exhausted by its restive European satellites, a ...

On Oct. 22, 1797, the first silk parachute jump from a high altitude was made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who dropped in a ...