MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was appalled at how the German embassy in Moscow posted maps of the post-war Europe with a distorted Soviet flag on its ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media.

A former senior Taliban official told CBS News that while the move was welcome, "Russia and China can't financially support ...

Australia has submitted an EOI to host the 2031 men's Asian Cup, while Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic have launched a joint bid for the continental showpiece.

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

Tajikistan, a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, is home to 10 million people and is one of the poorest former Soviet republics. A criminal investigation into the incident has been launched, the ...

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

Washington DC: At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia ...

The CSTO is a military alliance that was founded in the 1990s consisting of Russia and former Soviet republics Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The Soviet flag has replaced the Norwegian at top in the coal loading crane at the harbor in Pyramiden. Russia’s tricolor is still there to the right, however less visible than the U.S.S.R. flag ...

FILE - A national flag of Tajikistan is hoisted to the top of the 165-meter (541.34 feet) flagpole in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow ...

It said the men, identified by Russian media as all being citizens of the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan living in Russia, would be remanded in pre-trial custody until May 22.