Women in Tajikistan, in Central Asia, are being advised by the government to dress more “Tajik-style” and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings – supposedly to ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

The Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed ...

Central Asia could become something like the El Dorado of European dreams. SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN – With access to rare metals and critical minerals on their minds, a number of top EU leaders are ...

For many theater lovers in Sacramento, nothing says summer quite like enjoying a Merlino’s Orange Freeze while watching a show at Broadway at Music Circus. For nearly 75 years, audiences have ...

By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s poignant drama All We Imagine as Light went home with the best picture prize Sunday night at the 18th Asian Film Awards.

BANGKOK (AP) — The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated in his second term is a challenge for all Asian economies, large and small, in an era when the most populous region of ...

Drums were banged and trumpets blasted when emotional residents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan crossed the border between the two countries for the first time in four years. For a long time Central ...

The war against the Soviet peasantry was finally won during ... peasant initiatives remained isolated from each other: village republics sprouted up in parts of the former Habsburg and Romanov ...

This month Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new podcast that set off political shockwaves over his exchanges with high-profile conservative guests. It left some allies, and even critics, doing a ...

The Republic’s commercial vacancy rate hit a high of 14 per cent last year, with more than 30,000 business locations classified as being vacant, according to property database GeoDirectory.