Pilot Viktor Belenko’s defection was a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union—which was subsequently shocked into ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Sadly, the descent module's parachute failed to deploy correctly and the capsule was said to have crashed into the steppe of ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

Born in Marc Chagall's hometown in Belarus, the Russian Jewish dancer Valery Panov, who made aliyah to Israel, has died at 87 ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

As the Ukraine conflict drags on and Russia nears completion of its nuclear modernization effort, experts ask: how many ...

The 80th anniversary parade in Moscow was not only a depressing abuse of history, but also a way to show that Russia is far ...

New Mexican' covered fallout from 1945 Santa Fe meeting where Manhattan Project spy passed along plutonium bomb plans to his ...