The crash of flight 5143, a Tu-154 on July 10, 1985, remains the deadliest air disaster in Soviet history. Carrying 200 ...

The Yak‑38 Forger was the Soviet Union’s answer to Western carrier‑based jets, a vertical takeoff and landing fighter built ...

THE HEAT IS ON: Russia faces a dilemma — while it contributes to global warming through fossil fuels, Siberia is heating up ...

Within a year of graduating from Cambridge Jones was walking the corridors of Whitehall, as well as interviewing the likes of ...

One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a ...

Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries. New streamlined visa regulations are ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

What do Japan’s Fermentation Research Institute, Secretary of Agriculture Earl “Rusty” Butz and the Soviet invasion of ...

On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.

Their next goal was to be the first country to send a living creature into space. Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow. Experts were not sure if any ...

With the World Cup of Hockey upon us, it's a good time to examine the question of which international team was the best in history. There's really only one answer: the 1980 Soviet Union team.