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For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union hung over humanity. Now, only one nuclear ...
As we were for a time after World War II, the U.S. is uncertain about its role in the world. This must change—or else.
Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his respects as he knelt and laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots buried in ...
President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set for a military base in Alaska that was crucial to ...
On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within ...
U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss a ceasefire deal for Ukraine at a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday and has said both Moscow and Kyiv will have to cede ...
The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th ...
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...
Russia today is like a Potemkin hegemon —- a phantom political power desperate to hide its decline. Once the unchallenged leader of both the South Caucasus and the entire former Soviet Union ...
RUSSIA has rolled into Alaska with a swagger – and a sneer – before Vladimir Putin even sets foot on US soil. From a USSR ...