Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed by the architect Chares of Lindos, a student of the famed Greek sculptor Lysippos.

The Red Army will be able to assure it. Soviet Russia's present allies may easily become obsessed by fear of the Red military colossus, even though, in the absence of any reliable system of general ...

Viv Groskop gathers some of the best Soviet satire and proletariat punchlines. When I was interviewing Russians for the documentary It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire ...

“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very famous as a hi-tech country,” Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan ...

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

Despite initially fearing they had found themselves in an austere-looking former Soviet backwater, prone to power cuts and intolerable heatwaves, the couple say moving there was an incredible ...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly feeling the strain of economic pressures that resemble those that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Forced to increase defence spending while cutting back on ...

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Watch out for The Death Stalker According to The First Descendant’s official Twitter account, The Death Stalker is a foe that’s far “more formidable” than any Colossus players have ...

China's 75th anniversary of Communist rule was marked quietly amid fears of a Soviet-style collapse. President Xi Jinping emphasizes party loyalty and ideological discipline, wary of ...

“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very ... around the self-ruling island owing to its semiconductor colossus. “So having a strong economy, producing certain things that the ...

About 10% of total defence spending will go to military personnel payments, which have also hit a post-Soviet high with the minimum annual wage in the first year of service at the frontline ...