After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Why did it take Europe so long to kick-start its entrepreneurial streak? And what changed to allow the continent’s founder ...

Greenland, which US President Donald Trump wants to annex on grounds of US national and international security, is a self-governing Danish territory in the arctic covered in ice, with untapped mineral ...

Last February, a Ukrainian company commander going by his callsign Veter was ordered to send his people to reinforce another ...

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