After Scott discovered a Norwegian flag planted at the Pole ... The plane—an enormous Soviet-designed freighter, which was so loud that Worsley and the others could barely hear their own ...

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern ...

The move comes as the three former Soviet states warily eye Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine. “We are now removing Russia’s ability to use the electricity system as a tool of geopolitical ...

The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially severed the flow of electricity between themselves and Russia after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s ...

From the outside, Norway can look like a haven of affluence, a country whose population of just 5.5 million is propped up by a gargantuan sovereign wealth fund worth nearly $2 trillion. Yet the ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...

mostly former Soviet factory managers, and a Yeltsin-friendly group of seven bankers and businessmen. That aside, Lada Australia marketing manager Mr Roger Phillips is brimming with confidence.

There was guarded optimism among military experts in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Vladimir Putin is assembling a heavyweight team with decades of experience in high-stakes negotiations to face off against U.S. President Donald Trump’s representatives for a deal to end Russia’s war ...

The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

Flags in Arizona and across the U.S. continue to fly at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. On the death of a former president, the U.S. Flag Code states that flags must be flown ...