The leaders of the European Union and five countries of Central Asia are holding their first summit to discuss ways to boost ...

The Central Asian region is home to approximately 79 million people spread across five nations. It was part of the Soviet ...

As Moldova tries to align itself with the European Union, the region of Gagauzia continues to lean pro-Russian. Now, there ...

You may have thought that right after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, there would be no chance of combat between the ...

Members of the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) have looked to improve their defense spending in the face of Russia's ...

Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people — typically, the very wealthy — holds most or all of the ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

For decades, the federal government kept secret part of a 15-page memo that Arthur Schlesinger ... on a cargo ship traveling from Cuba to the Soviet Union, a newly unredacted portion of this ...

For the eighth year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world, while the United States hits a new low. Plus, more on the state of happiness and well-being around the globe.