V-J Day marked the end of WWII — and Star publisher was there William R. Mathews of Tucson was among the few press to witness the surrender ...

Xi Jinping’s ideological upbringing; extinctions and the dubious ethics of reviving lost species; a belated English translation of a Swedish cult classic; a Ukrainian novel of war and snails ...

The first posters were displayed in the windows of TASS agency on June 27, 1941, less than a week after Germany attacked the USSR ...