Surovtsev was born in the USSR city of Zhdanov – which has since been renamed Mariupol in present-day Ukraine – in 1984. After his father, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker, died from radiation ...

Galina Vishnevskaya is 96 years old. A Holocaust survivor, she has lived her entire life in the same small Ukrainian village ...

Once the fourth-largest lake on Earth, the Aral Sea in Central Asia covered more than 68,000 square kilometers. But under the ...

Born in a country that would soon vanish off the map, these children became accidental trailblazers of a new global condition ...

A small band of explorers are cracking into the radioactive mines where the Kremlin once used slave labor to dig out its uranium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

Morocco’s Independence Day, observed each year on November 18, came to represent more than the date King Mohammed V ascended ...

President Zelensky says Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history, as the White House pushes its plan.

Learn how ASIO monitored Greek migration, reflecting the distrust and challenges faced by migrants in Australia.

For all its modernization, Poland hasn’t lost its soul. The European Union sometimes calls Poland “defiant.” But to Poles, ...

Russia's Cold War-era 'Doomsday Radio', known as UVB-76 or The Buzzer, sent a strange coded broadcast on Monday that included ...

The 7th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia, held yesterday in Uzbekistan, marked another decisive ...