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Hungary’s forgotten Soviet city still stands near Lake Balaton: The story of Szentkirályszabadja and its sudden Cold War disappearanceSzentkirályszabadja, once a bustling Soviet military town, now stands quietly near Lake Balaton, predominantly uninhabited. During the Cold...- Gulag prisoners built this town during WW2, it grew into a USSR mining centre of over 10,000 people; before the end of the Soviet era brought its decline in 1996Once a vibrant Soviet town dedicated to coal mining during World War II, Kadykchan was home to a lively community complete with schools and...
- India Gate doesn't honour freedom fighters. Know the complex truthIndia Gate, originally a British imperial memorial, now holds multiple layers of history. It commemorates soldiers who served the British E...
- In 1991, the Soviets abandoned anthrax island, a bioweapon facility which still has over 90% chance of killing people decades after its creationVozrozhdeniye Island served as a Soviet biological weapons testing site for decades. Weaponized anthrax spores left behind remain a dangero...
- On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key eventsOn This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-D...
- Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowUkraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster i...
- Af-Pak relations may not normalise for a long time to comePakistan's unprovoked airstrikes in Afghanistan have failed to achieve objectives, with the Taliban inflicting significant damage on the Pa...
- NASA discovers a 'Secret City' built by US military to survive a nuclear attackA NASA aircraft's ice-penetrating radar revealed the lost Cold War-era Camp Century under Greenland's ice. Built in the 1960s for nuclear m...
- ‘City under the ice’: NASA unearths hidden Cold War era US military base 100 feet beneath GreenlandNASA’s recent radar survey over Greenland has uncovered Camp Century, a Cold War-era U.S. military base buried beneath 100 feet of ice. The...
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine closer to end of war with RussiaUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy believes his country is nearing the end of the war with Russia. He emphasized the importance of con...
- A timeline of complicated relations between Russia and North KoreaRussian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would assist North Korea in satellite development. When questioned about whether he ...
- A timeline of the complicated relations between Russia and North KoreaNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia for his second meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The agenda for the meeting has ...
- Deception and trickery are the other weapons in the Ukraine warOn the Russian side, Gen. Sergei Surovikin has been projecting an air of gloom and doom, saying last month, "the situation in Kherson is te...
- Analysis: War, economy could weaken Putin's place as leaderWhile Putin's coterie has every incentive to stay close for the time being or risk losing privileges and wealth, if the war drags on for mo...
- Russian diaspora isn't showing much support for Russia's invasion of UkrainePart of the reason why Russia's diaspora mobilization strategy amid the Ukraine war seems to be bearing so little fruit is that the Russian...
- Five scenarios for Ukraine after Russia invasionHere are possible scenarios for the weeks and months ahead, according to Western government sources and think-tank experts.
- View: An authoritarian zero-Covid strategy could disrupt the global economy, and ChinaIt is not just that the authorities would have to admit that the strategy they have been following, and for which they have imposed tremend...
- Taliban tame the 'Lion of Herat', capture his Afghan cityThe "Lion of Herat" has been a huge figure throughout Afghanistan's tumultuous modern history, initially rising to be one of the most power...
- Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes UNESCO World Heritage tag for ChernobylOn April 26, the former Soviet republic marks the 35th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the plant, loc...
- Russia's space city is frozen in time, but launching rocketsNowadays Baikonur embraces the world, from wealthy space tourists to the world’s first Malaysian cosmonaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, who bl...
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