Former Soviet Union

Afghanistan marks Soviet withdrawal anniversary as Taliban rule draws global scrutiny

The Taliban’s governance remains deeply controversial. Since returning to power in 2021, the group has imposed sweeping restrictions on women and girls and enforcing strict social rules.

An Afghan Taliban fighter sit next to an anti-aircraft gun near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, October 15, 2025.
 New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special " Aliyah Flight 2016" on behalf of Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 17, 2016,

Israel’s conversion crisis is becoming an aliyah crisis - opinion

Holocaust survivors and WW2 veterans from the former Soviet Union take part at the Holocaust Memorial service of their local Police station, Katsrin, Golan Heights, April 24, 2025.

Immigration from Russia, Ukraine, at its lowest since COVID-19, says Diaspora Affairs Committee

IN THE Stalin era’s early days, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far East – the Jewish Autonomous Region. The region’s capital was the city of Birobidzhan. This 274-photograph album includes images from the city’s early years, from the late 1920s.

'World Enemy No. 1': Hitler, Stalin, and the crime of being Jewish - review


Marvel removes Jewish superhero Sabra's Israeli identity for new Captain America movie

The Israeli background of Marvel superhero Sabra has been removed for the upcoming 'Captain America: Brave New World' movie, with the character now depicted as a former Soviet Black Widow.

Marvel Jewish superhero Sabra.

New immigrants to Israel find solace, strength in community during wartime

As the war rages on, the efforts of Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli demonstrate the power of community in helping new immigrants find their place and purpose in Israel.

 Spirited Russian-speaking immigrants learn about Israel’s path to independence on a hike in the Jerusalem Hills.

Chess champion and vocal opponent of Putin's Russia talks to 'Post'

Kasparov visited Israel earlier this month to receive an honorary degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science and talked about his forceful opinions about his native Russia led by Vladimir Putin.

 OPPOSITION LEADERS Garry Kasparov (left), Alexei Navalny (center) who died in a Russian penal colony earlier this year, and Sergei Udaltsov (right) hold a banner during an opposition protest in St. Petersburg in 2012.

Ebrahim Raisi signaled Iranian revolution's demise

The deceased Iranian president epitomized the Khomeini Revolution’s successes, adventures, and decay.

 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gestures during a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela June 12, 2023.

Russian plane has 'flown it's last': Ukraine downs surveillance craft - commander

The A-50 first came into use during the soviet era.

 A Russian A-50 aircraft.

Protest in Georgian capital amid anger over 'desecration' of Stalin icon

A side panel of the icon includes a depiction of the Georgian-born Stalin - an avowed atheist who violently repressed religion across the Soviet Union - being blessed by St Matrona of Moscow.

A view shows an icon, an element of which depicts Soviet leader Joseph Stalin being blessed by Russian Orthodox saint Matrona of Moscow, and that was recently defaced with paint in an act of protest amid controversy over the icon’s apparent honouring of Stalin in Tbilisi, Georgia, January 10, 2024.

Wars in Israel, Ukraine take center stage in Israel for Jews rooted in former USSR

Since its creation in 2005, Limmud FSU has held nearly 90 festivals worldwide, drawing over 80,000 participants.

 Israeli military reservists were among the 150 people with roots in the former Soviet Union who gathered on Dec. 21, 2023, for an evening of lectures, music and solidarity with Israel.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.

 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

What historical events occurred due to hijacking of Soviet Plane in 1970?

As history has shown, the position of informal organizations actually met the interests of the whole world.

 Aeroflot's An-2, the same plane Dymshits-Kuznetsov group tried to hijack

Yom Kippur War: The Middle East Armageddon's uncounted victims - comment

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The 50-year-old Yom Kippur War’s list of casualties should include the lira, the kibbutz, and the Soviet Union.

 THE TEL SAKI memorial site near Moshav Ramat Magshimim on the Golan Heights commemorates IDF soldiers who fell during the fighting there in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.