Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

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Comprehensive sanctions targeting cultural and sporting areas may have failed to deliver the desired outcomes. Instead, they ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia was officially severed ...

In Latin America, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele welcomed the freeze, claiming that just 10 per cent of the USAID money “reaches real projects that help people in need”, while the rest “is used ...

Vijay Pande, PhD, founding investor of Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund and a general partner with the tech venture ...

In a new four-article series, The Independent reveals the details of Bel Trew’s special investigation into the desperate plight of hundreds – potentially thousands – of people with disabilities caught ...

Once the headquarters of the State Protection Authority (similar to the Soviet Union's KGB), the building ... uprising against its Soviet-controlled government. Recent visitors said this museum's ...