Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bright Ascension Cathedral is one of Almaty’s landmark buildings - getty I was standing outside the grand Stalin-era Science ...

More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) continue to grapple with economic stagnation, aging infrastructure, and environmental ...

So much so that the Soviet Union is permanently indented on the national reputation of the country. And this makes it easy to think of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, as "just another former-Soviet ...

Deep in Siberia, the Soviet Union built a closed city where selected workers lived better than most citizens while helping produce material for the nuclear arsenal. Beneath a granite mountain, ...

Part One. Incarcerated space and Western nuclear frontiers -- Mr. Matthias goes to Washington -- Labor on the lam -- "Labor shortage" -- Defending the nation -- The city plutonium built -- Work and ...