Russian and German troops on the Eastern Front of World War I were not only fighting each other, they were also trying to stay alive amid the blistering cold, starvation and, surprisingly, large packs ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

It may be a lazy critic cliché to write that an artist’s life was itself a work of art, but we are dealing with a man who let a wounded stork convalesce in his bed while he slept on the floor.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of ...

Petrograd city governor AP Balk noted in his diary that among ... After the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union formally accepted International Women's Day. Communist nations did the same, accorded ...

As reality television, the live broadcast of the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the hands of a thuggish Donald Trump and his vice-presidential attack dog, JD Vance, was compelling viewing.

A German air force Tornado with a Taurus. The German Taurus is a 1.5-ton cruise missile with a turbofan engine propelling it to high subsonic speeds over a distance of around 300 miles under GPS ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.