U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962. What did ...

Russia has suffered a strategic defeat after the people of Moldova, a former Soviet republic neighbouring Ukraine, narrowly voted to join the European Union, defying a noisy Russian campaign against ...

Renowned British historian Sir Niall Ferguson made a harrowing comparison between modern day America and the Soviet Union in ...

The billionaire, Georgia’s richest person and the founder of its ruling party, is seldom seen in public and, of late, almost ...

“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very famous as a hi-tech country,” Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan ...

Russian officials have repeatedly said they don't interfere with sovereign states and have accused the West of meddling in ...

It was something I had asked myself on arriving in the capital, Chișinău, late one Monday evening. The streets were dark and ...

historians and economists have compiled a list of the richest people in history—figures whose wealth, whether in gold, land, ...

Moldova's incumbent President and presidential candidate Maia Sandu casts her ballots at a polling station, as the country ...