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Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

The war betwen Russia and Ukraine has been raging since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and both nations have reached deep into their respective bags of tactical tricks. Some of Ukraine's choices might ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

President Trump wants to engage Russia and China in nuclear arms control negotiations. Calling denuclearization “a big aim,” Trump told reporters, “Russia’s willing to do it, and I think China is ...

With artists from more than 20 countries and ambitions for a billion-plus viewers, Russia revives its Intervision song contest. With Russia banished from Eurovision, the song contest extravaganza born ...

Russia is reportedly reviving Soviet-era methods such as coercive psychiatric treatments to suppress dissent, particularly against anti-war activists. A U.N. report highlights an increase in ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N. expert said on ...

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its war in Ukraine. This weekend, ...

After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a less popular area of study and dealing with in comparison to before the end of the Cold War (1949‒1991). In the West, it was believed that ...

Perhaps the Eurovision ban is starting to bite, because three years after Russia was booted from the beloved song contest following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, it is reviving a Soviet-era ...

Russia has revived Intervision, a Soviet-era song contest, with 22 countries participating. Critics argue the event serves as a geopolitical tool, reflecting Moscow's anti-Western outlook and rivaling ...