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News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

A commemorative medal – 35 Years of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan – was established in the country, with the corresponding...

The 35th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan medal has been instituted in Belarus. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed corresponding decree No. 403.

During his today’s meeting with the Governor of the Stavropol Region of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirov, President Aleksandr ...

On October 9, 1943, the Red Army of the Soviet Union won the Battle of the Caucasus, liberating the region from the Nazi invaders. The fighting for the Caucasus was a series of clashes which lasted for 442 days in total, becoming the longest battle of the Great Patriotic War, as well as the World War II (WWII).

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake. "It was a mistake," Putin said when asked about perceptions of Russia as a colonial power due to Moscow's decision to send tanks into Budapest in 1956 and into Prague in 1968. "It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other peoples," said Putin, wh...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Clambering over boulders, past old tires and shellfish-encrusted scrap metal, Oleksandr Shkalikov ventured onto the dry bed of a vast reservoir. Out in this wasteland rested a haunting reminder of long-ago battles on this same swath of southern Ukraine: a swastika, chipped into a rock, had emerged from the receding water. The year “1942’’ was written next to it. “History is repeating itself,” Shkalikov, a tank driver on leave from...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Clambering over boulders, past old tires and shellfish-encrusted scrap metal, Oleksandr Shkalikov ventured onto the dry bed of a vast reservoir. Out in this wasteland rested a haunting reminder of long-ago battles on this same swath of southern Ukraine: a swastika, chipped into a rock, had emerged from the receding water. The year “1942’’ was written next to it. “History is repeating itself,” Shkalikov, a tank driver on leave from...

The iconic war photograph of the raising of the flag over the Reichstag was taken on this day in 1945.

Exploring abandoned German and Soviet Airports and Airfields in Berlin and Brandenburg. Follow our urbex tours through Berlin and Brandenburg.