Germany holds the world's second-largest gold reserves, 1,236 metric tons, 37 percent of which worth $123 billion are kept at ...

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

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

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and ... is derived from this former terminus station ...

The worrying chart details which members of the Western military alliance could be vulnerable to attack from Putin.

Many of these countries were primarily encouraged/forced to make off-dry and fortified wine for Russia and the ex-Soviet ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...

Ukrainian ceasefire looks no closer, Sir Alex Younger tells The Independent how the UK is too detached from the threat posed ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

Even as a ceasefire seems closer than ever, Sir Michael Fallon warned it won't end the Russian tyrant's Soviet revival ... threat to its former satellites and other countries near its borders ...