The Russian president, who carefully cultivates his image in the media, dressed in camouflage when visiting Kursk.

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

68.And finally, this is the oldest photograph ever taken. Nicéphore Niépce took the photo from his window in France in 1826.

Other sources also suggest Soviet ... general of Taiwan was recalled for this mishap, but that didn’t happened. It also does not account for the damage in Hsinchu. Tu Cheng-yu writes (杜正宇) in “Bombing ...

Cossacks held elections to choose their leader, a general ... Soviet regime cut short the lives of millions of Ukrainians from the 1920s to the 1950s. As one of the major battlefields of World ...

But, in a remarkable turnaround since World War II, Moscow has transformed a relatively ... sunbathe on deck in what U.S. Navymen call the “Soviet uniform”-white jockey shorts.

There are decades when weeks happen and weeks when decades happen, goes an aphorism misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. The ...

Tall, lean and weathered, a veteran of two world wars, Major General George Price Hays wasn ... stunning yet least heralded operations of World War II, the 10th was unique.

Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ... The result was a drastically weakened Soviet military and disastrous failures early in WWII. Some ...

The command’s focus went from countering the Soviet army to softer security cooperation activities on a Continent where fears of large-scale conflict were viewed as a relic from a bygone era.