Moscow’s strategic priority to blunt Western influence in its region has now culminated ... that require slow and difficult processes and that may not actually end in acceptance. At the end of the ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

Recalling his unfortunate experience of crossing paths with Putin back in the 1980s during an interview with The Sun, Sergei ...

When the Indian prime minister visited the Soviet Union in 1985, he spent some time in smaller Soviet republics.

Putin agreed on Trump's plan on all points, taking into account intelligence data. Witkoff's visit was announced in Moscow ...

According to the report, Soviet troops in Ukraine spotted a "low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer" during a training ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations ... which was formally annexed by Moscow in the summer of 1940. In addition, some Jewish children ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...