The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Russian state’s ...

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours.

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

Amid the various anniversaries of the last year, one seems to have passed unnoticed. It was just ten years ago that the Soviet Union embarked on its program of economic aid to neutralist countries.

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous – but are now voting for the far right. They say the Germany they once ...