Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

The four countries met, along with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, in the 1976 Canada Cup from Sept. 2-15, the first NHL international tournament.

At one time it is was expected that contestants entering the Eurovision Song Contest would have been born in the country they ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union greatly affected this decades-old gas business. Russian gas now had to transit an ...

The Wannsee Conference was held on January 20, 1942, near Berlin, Germany. Fifteen high-level German officials from various ...

Within the space of 15 years, Poland and Hungary have gone from being bros to foes. How did it come to this and where does ...

This, the Americans assumed, would take between eight and 15 years, given the wartime devastation the Soviet Union had suffered ... Also, to prevent those countries that did not already possess ...

The Boston Bicycle Club, the first bicycle club in the United States, is formed. 1949 — Willie Pep becomes the first boxer in the history of the 126-pound class to regain a ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

It is now three months since the November 1 Novi Sad tragedy, when a concrete canopy collapsed on the recently renovated railway station, resulting in the deaths of 15 people. This disaster, perceived ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections ...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected at a ceremony on Sunday as a specially-made 9-meter ...