Amid worsening inflation, Russia is preparing to cap prices on staple food items, a move analysts say signals a shift toward ...

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within ...

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

It was the USSR’s answer to the Space Shuttle - a ghostly twin, built in secrecy and launched only once. The Buran was a marvel of Soviet engineering - fully automated, reusable, and tragically ...

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

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

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 ...

The Soviet Union, which formed in the 1920s, collapsed in the early 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ukraine, which has claimed Russia has deployed about 90,000 troops to its border, was ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar and will conduct archival research at Film University Babelsberg in Germany. His project explores how ...