Step into the heart of Soviet nostalgia with a journey through the quirkiest and coziest New Year traditions of the USSR. This video explores how families celebrated the most important holiday of the year from hunting down rare ingredients for Olivier salad to magical evenings filled with festive lights,

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of treaties to keep the arms race from

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and improvised assault charges across the battlefield.

On Friday, May 9, military parades and various festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over the Third Reich took place throughout Russia. The parades were held in an atmosphere of heightened security.

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were those with special permission. After the city reopened on Jan. 1, 1992, Father Effing was able to celebrate Mass at the Vladivostok church for the first time in nearly 70 years — on the church’s front steps, in biting cold.

Evidence of Russian violence against Ukrainian civilians — murders, kidnappings and rape — continues to emerge on a daily basis. Each liberated locality adds to a grisly realization that a genocide might be taking place in the Russian-occupied Ukraine.

In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private conversation — anything can be used against those who refuse to conform in a country ruled by intimidation,

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree last week establishing April 19 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People perpetrated by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War II – without ever mentioning Jews or Jewish victims.