Photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has spent three years intensively covering the war in his ...

Many residents of the Voroshilov and Red Plowman farm cooperatives, fleeing from the Nazi brutalities, hid in cellars. German soldiers pelted their hiding places with grenades, and those who tried to ...

The USS Becuna submarine sank 3,888 tons of shipping and earned four battle stars in World War II.

MOSCOW (AP) — The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There was no danger to the ...

the subject of a decades-long territorial dispute between Russia and Japan that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty at the end of World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia was officially severed Saturday (February 8, 2025) morning after officials switched off the Soviet ...

the subject of a decades-long territorial dispute between Russia and Japan that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty at the end of World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands, known in ...

This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics’ final ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s transmission lines ...

Even though much of my job as a travel writer involves testing suitcases, I usually prefer to fly with a carry-on backpack when I have the choice. You just can’t beat the sense of freedom that ...

Following Russia's ban from competing in Eurovision in 2022 after the country's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the return of Intervision, a Soviet-era singing ...