Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. Tashkent’s 1974 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Anyone who's ever visited a post-soviet country would've probably noticed some dull and depressing Eastern Bloc apartment buildings. Designed solely for one purpose—to put a roof over the heads of as ...

Dmytro Soloviov stops by the “Flying Saucer,” a concrete structure in central Kyiv nicknamed for its futuristic, spaceship-like form. Designed by architect Florian Yuriev and completed in 1971 as the ...

Today, the image of Eastern Europe is largely based on these huge concrete blocks of low-cost housing, which generally seem old-fashioned and depressing. This legacy of the former Soviet Union can be ...

Estonia is seeking fresh solutions for upgrading aging Soviet-era school buildings, aiming to develop an open-access toolkit to make future renovations easier. The Ministry of Education and Research, ...

At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No one ...