Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered were ldquoshot dead on the spotrdquo Others were killed despite being unarmed or injured according to witness ...

Moscow flat bomb kills pro-Putin paramilitary leader as Kyiv strikes energy plants - A pro-Russian separatist, known to be a ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

Russia is resuming passenger flights to the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia for the first time in three ...

Andrei Niktin was appointed Russia's deputy transport minister on Friday, replacing Dmitry Bakanov, who was moved on Thursday to lead the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Development is. Russia’s quest for new sources of hydrocarbons has encroached on pastures that were already ...

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