After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the USSR crumbled almost overnight. This video dives into the real reasons: a ...

When mobs stormed government buildings and hounded the president from office in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan after disputed elections last month, Vladimir Putin seemed unimpressed.

From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting ...