Born in Soviet Union, Grindr CEO was told he had two career options: Learn English or how to shoot a gun

Grindr CEO George Arison used the only public fax machine in town to smuggle his application across the border to America and ...

Former Reachout director recalls helping set up Ukrainian hotlines after USSR collapse

POTSDAM – Reachout’s former executive director Karen Easter didn’t just train over 4,000 volunteers to help people in crisis in St. Lawrence County. She also trained them in Russia and Ukraine after ...

Semyon Gluzman, 79, Dies; Doctor Dared to Criticize Soviet Psychiatry

He was imprisoned for calling attention to the practice of declaring dissidents mentally ill. He later led efforts to ...

Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, its legacy still resonates

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

A Soviet sea, killed by an obsession with 'white gold'

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...