As of 2025, the geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe and Central Asia continues to be shaped by the historic independence of former Soviet Union nations. Here is a detailed timeline highlighting ...

The Soviet collapse in 1991 was so sudden and comprehensive that it came to seem inevitable. New work by historians of the ...

The wars of east and west that fused to become the Second World War remade the political map of the world. This is the story of how a world, centuries in the making, was completely remade in a couple ...

The movie that topped the box office chart this week in 1967 was Sean Connery's fifth outing as James Bond -- and, as it ...

African Union brokers Burundi peace summit; Viking 1 returns first photos from the surface of Mars; Jordan's King Abdullah ...

Some of the best games have the darkest twists revealing that people were playing as villains all along in the end.

The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the ...

The Cold War lasted for more than four decades. That’s enough time for the widely accepted narrative to get detached ...

On July 17, one of the most important events in modern world history is the start of the Potsdam Conference in 1945. As World ...

ROSA MUMANYI. Only five nations have successfully achieved controlled soft landings on the Moon since the beginning of lunar ...

Co-creators Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpertt tell IndieWire about how Soviet state secrets gave them the freedom to craft a whole ...

A leadership shuffle in the Russian-occupied portion of Georgia signals that Russia is still invested in redrawing borders in the Caucasus. Russia and South Ossetia laid the legal groundwork for this ...