Thom Shanker

Nothing appears too sinister, not at first. Only rarely can a swastika be spotted, or graffiti threatening outsiders, even though one in four of Offenbach's 117,000 residents is non-German. Not...

The Serbian people, the lot of them, have become prisoners of war. Already slaves to hate-inducing memories of subjugation by outsiders through the centuries, the Serbs became new captives to...

The Serbian-dominated government of Yugoslavia is violating a United Nations arms embargo by supplying food, fuel and weapons to Serbs waging war in Bosnia, according to UN monitors and eyewitness...

As the third snowfall of the season sticks to the hills above Sarajevo, proving that winter has arrived in earnest, Serb political and military leaders have met to determine the...

Ukrainian artisans centuries ago mastered the Byzantine traditions of silver filigree, gold engraving and steel etching to create religious icons for the Orthodox Church. Ah, but the life grows tiring-and...

Sometimes they`re viewed as cardboard characters acting out a movie fantasy. Others say they`re nothing but cold-blooded bone-crackers. Some even see them as modern-day Robin Hoods helping bring down the...

Continuing his grab for power, Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Sunday proposed a radical restructuring of the Soviet Union that would minimize the role of Mikhail Gorbachev and reduce the...

If you`re a Soviet republic planning to secede from Moscow`s rule, how do you go about raising your own army? Easy. Ask Vazgen Sargsyan. You just open the door, and...

Carved from farmland 33 years ago to be the Soviet Silicon Valley, Zelenograd has become a high-tech Paris Commune of 1991, where voters thumb a collective nose at the federal...