Homeless residents of Russian-occupied Mariupol are refusing to move into apartments vacated by those who fled the city.

It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia ...

Georgia plans to spend millions turning an abandoned Soviet-era spa town into a tourist attraction. But Tskaltubo's decaying sanatoriums are also home to refugees from a past civil war ...

He had a chance meeting with a geography professor in the Czech Republic who invited him on a trek to discover an abandoned Soviet military base. It was a life-changing experience. "I started to ...