Commonly referred to as the “Nostradamus of the Balkans”, Baba Vanga was a well-known Bulgarian clairvoyant, who is attributed with the successful predictions of global events such as the Chernobyl ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Monday said President-elect Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is ...

The in-depth story of the Kursk Submarine Disaster. When it was commissioned in 1994, the nuclear submarine K-141 “Kursk” was one of the most powerful assets of the Russian Navy. The size of two jumbo ...

Rangers of the 6th regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a successful operation in the Kursk Oblast of russia, capturing one of the settlements. Before ...

GILES: Well, very soon after Putin took power, we have the Kursk submarine disaster in Russia, where a Russian submarine in a naval exercise explodes and sinks, killing 118 sailors. It's the ...

To mark 25 years of Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russia expert Keir Giles of Chatham House about three key moments in which Putin has exerted power.