Long ago, the northern Norwegian town of Kirkenes was liberated by the Soviets. It maintained friendly relations with Russia ...

I think that journalism needs to learn how to sell itself. “For me, there’s no alternative,” he added—but the healthiest long ...

Over 118,000 Russian soldiers have been confirmed dead since the invasion of Ukraine, including 523 foreign nationals from ...

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The following is part of a series of reports by the Kyiv Independent about the memorialization of Ukraine’s fallen soldiers and civilians. Every nation-defining event in Ukraine's nearly 35 years of ...

A number of Soviet painters used to use it in their works. However, the American Far Right had started to use it as a unifying symbol, and the swastika gradually fell out of vogue in the USSR.

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three ...

Russia has confiscated assets worth 3.9 trillion roubles, or around $50 billion at current exchange rates, over the past ...

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence reports that over 100 cultural artifacts have been unlawfully taken from Crimea by Russian ...