During the Cold War, the Soviet Union devised a shocking plan to weaponize asteroids in a project nicknamed Ivan’s Hammer.

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity. Beginning in the 1970s, ...

It was the USSR’s answer to the Space Shuttle - a ghostly twin, built in secrecy and launched only once. The Buran was a ...

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

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

Russia has announced it will no longer uphold its obligations under the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty, ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.