Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a ...

Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries, a legacy that dates to the 1990s when the nation broke away from the Soviet Union. New streamlined visa regulations ...

Vladimir Putin’s worldview, forged in the rigid, zero-sum logic of Soviet-era geopolitics, is central to this strategy. His ...