Images of Ukraine, When Things Began to Fall Apart
The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia was officially severed Saturday morning after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid's transmission ...
Zelenskyy congratulates Baltic countries as they disconnect from Soviet-era power grid
The switchover to the European electricity network, which Baltic leaders said held geopolitical and symbolic significance, ...
Sugihara proves that 'even one person can change the world'
Even 125 years after his birth, Japanese diplomat Chiuna Sugihara, who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, is far ...
EU ambassador talks about hiring in Northeast Philly, Trump’s tariffs, and Pa. natural gas
Jovita Neliupšienė visited Leonardo, the Italian helicopter manufacturer based here, earlier this month with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker.
International Railway Journal23d
Rail Baltica - Building a bridge to the European standard-gauge network
While Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are served by a 1520mm-gauge rail network, freight traffic flows are mainly east-west to Russia and Belarus reflecting their Soviet past and the fact that traffic ...
The Nation24d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...