Florence Nightingale, remembered as “The Lady With The Lamp”, transformed modern nursing through sanitation reforms, ...

Military conflict has long defined the history of the world, helping draw borders, advance technologies, and giving rise to ...

This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the ever-tightening control of information imposed by the ...

Pontrefact cakes are liquorice sweets. They are small and black with a medicinal-sweet taste which liquorice lovers adore, ...

By Milan St. Protić, historian and diplomat The struggle of the Serbs for their own statehood was long and arduous. Therefore, at the outset, a few essential historical facts. Three-quarters of the ...

Every May, Nakba Day, with its noisy demonstrations on our streets, brings the same charge against Israel: that the ...

Billy Cotsis reminds us that the ancient and Byzantine Greeks have had a tremendous impact on the fabric of Crimea for ...

Hundreds of Ukrainians marched through the capital on Friday, demanding that the government veto a bill that families of ...

The Organization of Turkic States is rising as a global power, and the future may hold more opportunities for more ...

Authorities in the annexed Ukrainian territory have reduced the protected boundaries of a medieval archaeological heritage ...

The foundation stone for a Centre for Turkic Civilisation was recently laid in Astana. It is a symbolic site of integration ...

Veteran Mac McLaren, 49, spoke about the impact of the war on his physical and mental health after he lost his leg and ...