HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt "extreme measures" to cut energy usage through the end of the year ...
Russian energy giant Gazprom, the world's biggest gas firm, said on Monday that net profit plunged 49.8 percent in the first half of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin could have started World War Three in 1989 had it used troops to crush the demonstrations that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday. Gorbachev is hailed in the ...
The mass killings under Joseph Stalin cannot be justified, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, in a rare condemnation by the Kremlin of the Soviet dictator still seen as a hero by many in Russia. Millions of people were killed in purges and ...
The mass killings under Joseph Stalin cannot be justified, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, in a rare condemnation by the Kremlin of the Soviet dictator still seen as a hero by many in Russia. Millions of people were killed in purges and ...
The mass killings under Joseph Stalin cannot be justified, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, in a rare condemnation by the Kremlin of the Soviet dictator still seen as a hero by many in Russia. Millions of people were killed in purges and ...
This photo taken Oct. 7, 2009 shows the mausoleum of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin on Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The mausoleum gives visitors a rare glimpse into the rituals of Soviet life nearly two decades after the USSR collapsed. (AP Photo/Mikhail ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Monday for world leaders to display political will to work toward genuine reductions and an eventual ban of nuclear weapons. Addressing the same forum at the U.N.'s European headquarters, former president of ...
Dictatorships have existed throughout history, and they still do today-despite the dreams of many people in the United States that everyone has as democratic a government as we do. Some of the most infamous dictatorships existed in Europe during the twentieth century; ...
When it’s hot and dry outside with no beach inside, a certain society and history evolves. Central Asia has a particular climate and geography that has led to an insulated area cut off from trade with few major cities and nomadic horse ...
Thirty-eight people were killed on Sunday when a fire ripped through a drugs treatment facility in a city outside Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty, emergency officials said. There was no information on what caused the fire, which began at roughly 5:30 am (2330 ...
Thirty-eight people were killed Sunday when fire ripped through a drugs treatment facility in a city outside Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty, emergency officials said. There was no information on what caused the fire, which began at roughly 5:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) ...
