At a recent media forum held in the Nagorno-Karabakh city of Shusha, Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev described the country’s Soviet past as a colonial experience. At the same time, musical culture is ...

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Geopolitical rivalry, intensified by fighting in Ukraine, is amplifying domestic struggles in countries like Georgia and Moldova whose people are split on which side to support. By Andrew Higgins ...

Voices in former Soviet states, where many remember being under Communist authoritarian rule, have been among those in Europe critical of such an approach. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese ...

WESTERN observers have been startled by the size and character of Soviet purchases and sales in many parts of the world during the past twelve months. The Russians have sold manganese to England, oil ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine ...

Ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union have held their first international "memory marathon" to raise awareness of the deportation and persecution of the group under brutal dictator Josef Stalin ...

Remarks by China’s ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of ex-Soviet states threatened to upset China’s efforts to balance courting Europe with supporting Russia. By Steven Erlanger ...

THE trade strategy of Soviet Russia has been created inevitably as a consequence of two principles basic to the structure of the Communist state -- repudiation of the debts of preceding governments ...