This month’s book recommendations include a feminist retelling of French folklore, a mystery centred around the Brontë sisters, and a ...

Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during the Cold War. Meanwhile, other sources say that nations including Albania ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

The European Union seeks to develop its ties with Türkiye, which possesses a strong defense industry as the bloc grapples ...

In 2001, Estonia became the first former Eastern Bloc country to win the Eurovision Song Contest thanks to Tanel Padar, Dave Benton, 2XL and their party anthem Everybody. Aruban-born Dave Benton also ...

The Western defense pact established in 1949 to rival the Eastern Bloc not only survived the end of the Cold War but expanded east into the former Soviet sphere of influence, setting the stage for ...

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Photo: Getty Images. A secret CIA operation spent decades flooding the Eastern Bloc with banned literature – nowhere more successfully than Poland in the 1980s, writes Charlie English.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says SADC bloc remains committed to playing its part to promote lasting and ...