Former Soviet Union

85 years later: Babyn Yar and the fight against deliberate erasure - opinion

On September 29 and 30, 1941, German forces, aided by local collaborators, murdered 33,771 Jews at Babyn Yar. In just two days, the lives of children, parents, and grandparents were cut short.

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy takes part in a commemoration ceremony for the victims of Babyn Yar (Babiy Yar), one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv Ukraine September 29, 2022.
The New York Times logo is seen on the building's facade in New York City on January 22, 2026.

Israel’s global news coverage vastly disproportionate and unusually persistent, analysis finds

More attention must be paid to people who want to leave Israel, and more must be done to help them change their minds and decide to stay, says the writer.

Israel needs to stop losing its people and start giving them reasons to stay - opinion

A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest.

Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion


US revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

The revival of the multibillion-dollar effort, known as the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS), comes as China has ramped up military exercises around Taiwan.

Royal Navy ambush submarine seen near Scotland

Russia's Medvedev hints at future Russian invasion of Georgia

"The idea of joining Russia is still popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Medvedev, a former Russian president, wrote in an article.

 Russia's Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a presentation of the BMPT-72 tank, dubbed the "Terminator-2"

Ukraine gets rid of Soviet symbols on Motherland monument in Kyiv

The move has its roots in a movement to “decommunize” - or shed memories of the former Soviet Union - which Ukraine has stepped up since Russia's all-out invasion last year.

Workers mount a Ukrainian national emblem to the shield of the 'Motherland' monument replacing the Soviet one, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of the World War II museum in Kyiv, Ukraine August 6, 2023.

Israel must immediately bring more olim from the former Soviet Union - opinion

The system of making Aliyah must be immediately changed, adapted, and streamlined, as it was in the 1980s.

 UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport last year.

British World War II planes discovered in Ukraine

In total, 3000 models of the plane had been sent to help the USSR fight off the Nazis from 1941 until 1944. 

Technical personnel prepare one of six British Tornado fighters October 11 before the planes took off from the Royal Air Force base in Brueggen

On this day 60 years ago: Russian astronaut becomes first woman in space

The goal of Tereshkova's mission was to compare the impact of outer space between male and female bodies.

 Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, currently a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, attends a session of the State Duma in Moscow, Russia July 22, 2020.

Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison

Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years.

 Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent deemed a traitor by the government Undated handout photo of former FBI agent Robert Hanssen

American Jews need a Soviet-style activist defense org. - opinion

In using public protests and street demonstrations to attract notice, Soviet Jewish activists changed Jewish history.

 AVITAL AND Natan Sharansky, reunited after 12 years, smile during an airport news conference upon his arrival in Israel, in 1986. The dynamic for Soviet Jewry changed with the founding of SSSJ, says the writer.

Former Soviet Union nations have no legal status - Chinese ambassador

A French official said on Monday that Shaye will receive a "very firm" update at the French Foreign Ministry on Monday.

 Man carrying a Soviet Union flag.

Paris, Kyiv, Baltic states dismayed after China envoy questions Ukraine sovereignty

The three Baltic states and Ukraine, all formerly part of the Soviet Union, reacted along the same lines as France.

 Chinese Ambassador in France Lu Shaye attends the MEDEF union summer forum renamed La Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France, LaREF, at the Paris Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France, August 29, 2019.