VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia will remove all public Soviet memorials in its majority Russian-speaking city of Narva, the government said on Tuesday, citing rising tensions in the city and accusing ...
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia – It's hard to fathom for 21-year-old Valeria Kashnikova as she delivers pizzas to tables jammed with Swedes, Croats, and Argentines that her Russian city was closed to ...
The city council in the Latvian capital, Riga, has agreed to dismantle a contentious Soviet monument in the city center. The decision was made during a special session on May 13, with police ...
Picture a city where nearly 100,000 people live, work, raise families, and grow old. Now imagine that for almost half a century, this place simply didn't exist. Not on any map, not in any census, not ...
Ten years ago, a telephone call awakened Ukrainian engineer Leonid Fuks in the middle of the night. The caller quickly introduced himself as an Israeli diplomat stationed in Kiev. He made Fuks, the ...
On a sweltering summer day, the researchers fan out in this city’s historical center, its walls lined with photos of local Jews who went through the Holocaust. The visiting scholars from St.
Fatkulin Nasyb died in the Kursk Battle of World War II. His granddaughter, Svetlana Yeager lives in Lee's Summit, Missouri. This year, for the first time, people in Kansas City will officially and ...
A former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union notes that sister-city programs were strongly supported by the U.S. government. Also: Voting rights in Florida; New York’s plastic ban. To the Editor: ...
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) - It’s hard to fathom for 21-year-old Valeria Kashnikova as she delivers pizzas to tables jammed with Swedes, Croats, and Argentines that her Russian city was closed to ...