An ambitious creative team promised to make Kyiv home to the biggest and most impressive Holocaust museum in all of Europe. Before Russia attacked the city, scholars and artists had spent years in...

Evan Gershkovich’s love of journalism and Russia went hand in hand. Now he’s being punished for it.

A patch of land on the north side of Kyiv is the site of recurring horror, repressed memories, and bloody historical echoes. But there are glimmers of a justice to come.

Artificial intelligence promises to remake the world. These believers are fighting to make sure thousands of years of text and tradition find a place among the algorithms.

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A Ukrainian journalist returns to her hometown after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

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As troves of KGB documents become declassified, former Soviet nations are grappling with their not-so-distant pasts.

The newspaper said it “vehemently denies the allegations” against Evan Gershkovich, an American, and the White House called his detention “unacceptable.”

After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.

A group of young idealists wanted to live the most ethical lives possible. Now some wonder whether the movement they joined has lost its moral compass

Sometimes just being a Linda is the best reason to celebrate.

Her grandfather’s fate in the war was a mystery. ‘Why don’t you find out?’ her father asked. Her darkest premonitions were justified.

Many of the women who left Ukraine, congregating in towns and cities in Poland, or taking buses and trains to other...

Tanja Maljartschuk’s novel Forgottenness confronts Ukraine's long struggle for nationhood in the face of Russia’s “imperial oblivion”.

The long read: When my Latvian grandfather disappeared in 1949, my grandmother knew he had been a member of a notorious Nazi brigade. But then a pension cheque arrived from the Soviet security agency

The 4,000 cards in the “Cheka bags” represent a fraction of the more than 24,000 KGB agents recruited in Latvia between 1953 and 1991, and provide a window into the workings of the Soviet security...

Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.

What happens if Nazi butchers are ‘reassessed’ in the name of national pride?

Sasha Ivanov, 18, an aspiring neurosurgeon, was killed trying to help his grandparents. It was not the end of the family’s ordeal

Maria Kodama's fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina's most-cherished author, Jorge Luis Borges.

Irpin was one of the first Ukrainian cities to be destroyed and liberated. Now it’s becoming a laboratory for rebuilding.

When you aren’t going anywhere, the danger is that you might start seeing the way things are going. Just as medieval...

With the ruling that two prominent Holocaust scholars must apologize for defaming the “good name” of the Polish nation, the chilling of speech enters a sinister new phase in Poland.

On Wednesday, the Whiting Foundation honored 10 promising writers, awarding each $50,000 in prize money, in a thoughtful ceremony.

Amid Western intelligence warnings that Russia could invade at any time, Ukrainians are trying to go about their daily lives.

The coronavirus pandemic touches every corner of the earth. In two hundred thirteen countries, more than eight hundred thousand people have died, and there have been nearly twenty-five million cases...

Evgenia Kara-Murza has traveled the world to speak out about her husband’s imprisonment and to advocate for the Kremlin’s countless other political prisoners.

Novo Nordisk's success has created extraordinary opportunities for Denmark, but it might also be putting the country's economy at risk.