New York, Ukraine, is a town of 10,000 people that was recently shelled by separatists backed by Russia. The meaning of its name is unknown. Some attribute it to 19th-century German settlers, while others cite evidence dating back to the 18th century. It was renamed Novgorodskoe by Soviet officials in 1951, but the Ukrainian parliament agreed last month to restore the town’s original name
All of Ukraine’s statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015. But in three small villages, indomitable Lenins still hold out — due to lack of money for demolition, apathy, and, in one case, a road so bad they couldn’t get a crane to it
With the controversy in the U.S. over removing Confederate and other monuments that celebrate figures with a racist past, Russia offers a cautionary warning about the perils of dismantling history too fast
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer
The Soviet leadership was so keen to withdraw from Afghanistan in the late 1980s that they failed to add a POW/MIA clause to the Geneva Accords of 1988, which ended the war with three Afghan-Pakistan bilateral agreements and a declaration on international guarantees, signed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk
Taurbaeva recently sued the local government and won the case, with the court ordering authorities to provide her a bigger apartment. They have offered her several housing options outside the city, but Taurbaeva doesn’t want to move out of Taldiqorgan, where she has lived all her life and has friends and relatives nearby