EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected at a ceremony on Sunday as a specially-made 9-meter (29.5-foot) tall clock in downtown Vilnius counts down the final seconds of the ...

Vilnius in Lithuania may not come to mind when you think of a European city break, but it really should - the city is ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Demographic data paint an alarming picture of Ukraine’s collapsing demographics, a problem that will be ...

Memory laws pose a set of distinct challenges for modern democracies, including in the realm of human rights law. In the four ...

Finland's community of approximately 1,500 Jews dates back to the 19th century when they arrived here to serve in the Russian ...

THOSE OF US who lived through the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s can remember thinking of Russia (then the USSR) as our mortal enemy.

This striking satellite shot shows a pair of simultaneous phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky surrounding Bear Island. The isolated land mass, also known as Bjørnøya ...

Joining the 27-country EU can be an arduous, years-long process that only three other former members of the Soviet Union — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have already completed. Armenia's ...

After the invasion of Ukraine ... His bottles of wine — part of a collection seized by the Soviet army as a trophy at the end of World War II and deposited in a labyrinthine underground cellar ...

Lithuania has intensified security measures around its electricity link with Poland as it prepares to disconnect from a Soviet-era power grid that includes Russia and Belarus. The move is set to take ...

Considered a foreign policy novice by many when he entered the White House, Carter made the early decision to provide covert aid to Afghan insurgents months before the Soviet invasion. The move ...