LONDON (Reuters) - Spy maps of Britain compiled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War contain such a wealth of information that a digital mapping firm has bought them for use by property developers.

Picture a city where nearly 100,000 people live, work, raise families, and grow old. Now imagine that for almost half a century, this place simply didn't exist. Not on any map, not in any census, not ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

Mongolia declared itself a “people’s republic” 100 years ago on November 26, 1924. But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been ...