TEREHOVA, Latvia — Behind the barbed wire fence, over the top of the snow-capped trees, a Russian flag flutters in the wind above what was once a busy crossing point. “This is the last stop on the ...

According to Russian ... Empire was still forming, on the battlefields of World War I, and amid the dramatic changes of the contradictory, arduous 1990s. On August 22, 1991, the white, blue and ...