A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

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Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex ... that has been developed to replace the Soviet-designed Proton rockets.

This meant that the Japanese forces in China and Manchuria would not attack the Soviet Far East, but Stalin needed to be certain in the autumn of 1941 when Hitler’s divisions were advancing ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

The Soviet Union eventually collapsed in 1991. The almost four decades of very different levels of economic growth was clear after reunification. East Germany's centrally planned economy had far ...