Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

April 17, 2025: NATO countries closer to Russia spend more on defense because they are aware of the threat. That’s why these countries also spend higher percentages of GDP in aid to Ukraine. Estonia, ...

Understand the violence option means risking soldier sons' and daughters' lives in the struggle. Post-Hiroshima, obtaining or denying the valuable position risks escalation to nuclear devastation. The ...

There was a similar fear in Norway, which also has land borders with Russia, and Sweden which doesn’t but feels itself too close to Russia. That makes the forlorn fourteen the scared seventeen. All ...

Afghanistan released U.S. citizen Faye Hall in March, after being held prisoner by the Taliban since February. The Taliban said Hall was ...

Russia continues to have problems with local or foreign hackers committing major crimes. For the last three years there have been massive thefts of billions of dollars from financial institutions and ...

Chechen efforts to create new MSDs in the region appear to be succeeding. Kadyrov uses some brutally effective methods. Any groups that oppose him are largely eliminated as Kadyrov arranges to have ...