Ukraine's situation in Russia's Kursk region has deteriorated sharply in the last three days. Read more at straitstimes.com.

This map shows West Germany and was printed in the USSR in 1988. It describes a country, Germany, that has completely changed its shape and was printed in a country that no longer exists.

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...