Soviet Union
Crocodiles, Fake Factories, and Nukes—Investigating Israel's Not-So-Secret Nuclear Program
"This is not a topic for conversation," the former head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission told VICE News when asked about Israel's worst-kept secret — its nuclear weapons arsenal.
This Ukrainian Cookbook Is Part Family History, Part Dumpling Heaven
“Cookbooks don’t have to be about recipes from a chef,” says Olia Hercules, author of Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & Beyond. “I like recipes because of the stories they might tell about a culture and all these things our grandmothers used to make.”
'Fear Was Always In Me': Life As a Stateless Person
According to the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, one stateless child is born every ten minutes. VICE News interviewed a woman who spent half her life living with no nationality.
Mountain Black: Photos from the Former Yugoslavia
Irina Rozovsky captures the disconcerting beauty of a nation that no longer exists.
US Arms Exports to Egypt: I Wish I Knew How to Quit You
After suspending arms shipments over the 2013 ouster of President Morsi, the US is back to selling fighter jets and tanks to a country with a bad human rights record.
American Gymnastics Imperialism at the World Championships
How did two teenage girls from Southern California end up representing Belarus, a country they otherwise have no connection to, on the former Soviet republic's quest for a berth at the 2016 Olympic Games?
The West Worried About Russian Escalation and Proxy War in Syria — in 1957
Newly released files show that 58 years ago, British diplomats predicted that Russia would use Syria's civil war to "arouse antagonism" against America.
Ghosts in the Roscosmos
Conspiracy theorists ask: How many cosmonauts were really claimed by the early Soviet Space Program?
If the US Doesn’t Arm Syrian Rebels, Someone Will
"I expect modern anti-aircraft weaponry soon," a Free Syrian Army commander told Motherboard.
See the Avant-Garde Photos that Helped Spread Soviet Communism
'The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film' is now on display at the Jewish Museum in New York.
A Ukrainian Artist Decapitated a Statue of Lenin and Replaced It with Darth Vader
In April, the Ukrainian government officially banned public displays of Communist propaganda — a move that has forced cities to replace hundreds of statues and rename streets named after Communist heroes.
Britain's Most Infamous Spies Were Loose-Lipped and Drunk, Newly Released Files Reveal
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, double agents who defected to Soviet Russia in 1951, have always been framed as slick operators. Newly released secret files show that perception is a far cry from reality.