Now penned in by a shabby shopping centre, a striking and well-used library and some generic ... Echoes of the Soviet era have been retained, including a large mural that is being restored.

From neon-lit cities to some of the oldest civilisations on Earth, from white-sand beaches to the highest mountains, no other ...

Take a stroll through its historic centre, known as the Golden Quarter, to admire the lively street art, explore the Soviet-era modernist ... the pink Damask roses, used to distil rose water ...

Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

For most of the Cold War, Mongolia was essentially a Soviet client state, at least until the rise of Gorbachev and the “Sinatra doctrine” led Soviet military forces to withdraw between 1986 ...

In 1915 the Sino-Russo-Mongolian tripartite agreement established Mongol autonomy under Chinese suzerainty, but the régime was short-lived, and in 1921 Urga, the capital, was occupied by Soviet troops ...

Suddenly in the 20th century, the cuisine disappeared when Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union. “Local spices and seasonal ingredients were out,” writes Klopotenko in his recently ...

The Browns hosted 850 high school girls flag football players from 46 area schools for their second-annual, ‘A New Era Summit.’ The event featured a panel discussion with 2024 Women’s ...

The door on the fifth floor of a crumbling Soviet-era tower block was flung open by an enormous red-faced man in a tracksuit, eyes bulging, bellowing at the top of his lungs. I turned to my ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

In Mongolia ... living on Soviet territory, the more will Japan find that irredentist movement inconvenient. The second concerns Sakhalin Island. The coal, oil and other forms of wealth in that part ...

I started public school in 1947 and soon learned to sing America and our national anthem and to say “The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.” I saw that we were a ...