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 - ...

Putin’s resentments and revenge aspirations are largely ignored in the West.

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

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

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

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

In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of the ...

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

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

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...