Soviet Union

A report published by the Council of Europe's Committee for Prevention of Torture on Tuesday after a three-day visit to Albania said that there is an urgent need to establish a specialised forensic psychiatric facility in the country to accommodate and treat male and female forensic psychiatric patients.

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine.

On this day, in 1986, a powerful explosion erupted in block 4 of the plant. It is difficult to determine the exact number of victims.

Dozens died immediately, but more than 100,000 people died from radiation-related cancer.

Lying off the northeastern tip of Japan, the island chain were seized by Soviet troops in the last days of World War II

In the weeks since war broke out in Europe, thousands of Finns have signed up with training associations to sharpen their military skills

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said earlier today that Kiev could sever diplomatic relations with Russia after Moscow decided to recognize two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent, Reuters reports.

Rocket appears to tumble out of control minutes after launch

Russia's influence, economic poverty and failure of reforms might undermine Moldova's governing reformists, and help the Left this year.

Russia will try to strengthen the joint border after the U.S. forces withdrew from the region in the last weeks, RT writes.
In a statement issued by Russian defense chiefs on Friday, officials said the latest hardware would be delivered to troops stationed in the mountainous Central Asian state.

“A message of peace to both the island and the world”

335,000 were killed by the Ottoman Turks