These ethnic Koreans are descendants of those who migrated to the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union from 1860 to 1945, often in search of farmland or an escape from Japanese rule over Korea.

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...

The number of countries in the world does not change very often, but when it does, mapmakers (and their digital counterparts) ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog.

He has spent over 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks fluent Russian. A key safety system was turned off on a U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional ...

but most agree that it has improved from the chaotic time immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. Discrimination against ethnic groups, specifically individuals of Asian or African ...

He was questioned several times after Maclean and Burgess fled to the Soviet Union in the 1950s. But without a confession, he was allowed to keep his position at the heart of the British ...

Its inception was part of the white backlash surrounding the New York City teachers’ union strikes of 1968 ... which ultimately led to an ethnic polarization of neighborhoods. By 1970, however, the ...

Calls to delay a controversial ethnic studies course at Tamalpais Union High School District for a year appear to be fading after a positive reaction by parents to aspects of the course.