Watch an explorer share what it's like to descend into the Darvaza Gas Crater, also known as the “Gates of Hell.” ...

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Bringing resources and tourists together is the key to peace in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, ...

Modest industrial capabilities were developed, and limited exploitation of Turkmenistan's natural resources was initiated. When other constituent republics of the Soviet Union advanced claims to ...

Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist government. See today's front and back pages, download the ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

This is the seventh Olympic Games that Turkmenistan has competed in as its own independent nation. Prior to 1996, Turkmen athletes competed on teams with the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the ...