It notes that the Soviet-era property was transferred from the Soviet central trade union council to the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine (the predecessor of the FPU) in October ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

A Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on Monday shattered much of the Derzhprom building, one of the most celebrated landmarks in Ukraine’s second city, dating from the 1920s. Six people were ...

The Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on Thursday evening deferred their proposed strike on May 20 to July 9 in light of the disturbing situation prevalent in the country presently following the India ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine.

KHARKIV, Ukraine, July 15 (Reuters) - In Saltivka, a working class suburb of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, the trams are running again. Built in the 1980s, the Soviet-era streetcars may look rickety ...

Soviet unions were centrally organized and known for offering workers vouchers for sanatoriums, the movie theater or other leisure activities. As in the Soviet system, Karimov-era trade unions had the ...

Kyiv's October Palace and Trade Unions Building are central locations in the Ukrainian capital - and controlled by the country's Federation of Trade Unions Images: CC BY-SA 4.0 / Void Wanderer ...