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Twenty-five years ago, an American spy in Georgia was killed, supposedly by a drunken villager. Michael Pullara didn't buy that.

Once home to 5,000 military personal, the base on Adak Island is now rusting into the wind.

Since it's in the media, we took a look at what it actually is.

How one man broke into a secret facility housing the last of the Soviet Union's experimental space ships.

Ivan Chistyakov was living a modern life in the city, working as an engineer and checking out plays and movies. Then he got shipped off to Siberia.

Vania the Bear and friends head to the countryside to hunt radioactive hellrats in exchange for discount coupons.

Where the world stands in 2016 is much like where it was in 1936, which is where Paradox's strategy game begins.

The British cultural icon talks about his new documentary Ben Building, which looks at the architecture of fascist Italy.

Like... why?

'The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film' is now on display at the Jewish Museum in New York.

The region has lagged behind Western Europe when it comes to gay rights thanks to its reactionary nationalist movements and Russia's outwardly homophobic regime.

We spoke to French-English journalist Manon Loizeau, who recently went back to Chechnya years after the end of its devastating war to make a new documentary.