It appears that when the Centurion met history, they didn't get along: that's the car above, abandoned next to railroad tracks in the Russian suburbs. Even if the Centurion was ugly, it's still a ...

From 1947 until 1953, tens of thousands of prisoners, many of them “politicals” convicted for “anti-Soviet acts,” were shipped to northern Russia to lay a railroad through some of the ...

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 ...

That's the situation that RZhD, the Russian state railway company faces. The company runs trains to - among other ... But Russia abandoned the bi-annual clock change last year, choosing to stay ...

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 ...