Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it ...

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

As funding cuts threaten Pilsen’s murals and war destroys Ukrainian mosaics, two communities are learning what makes public art endure.

From its initial creation in 1922, the Soviet Union was perhaps the most ambitious political experiment in human history. But ...

Every day in history has its own set of stories, extending well beyond what happens in that one day. It may be days ...

After a stalled career in espionage, a Soviet spy was assigned to an archive. What he learned made him decide to smuggle its ...

On0, Becky Hammon of the San Antonio Spurs made history as the first woman to coach an NBA regular season game when she filled in for Greg Popovich after he was ejected during a game against the Los ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

A scene from the film Tolerance, which predicts the ‘extinction of once-prosperous countries’ A state-backed Russian propaganda film attacking the West’s “moral decay” made just £845 at the box office ...

Kristina van Kuyck receives funding from the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Project ID: GOIPG/2023/3686 As I was photographing Soviet-era monuments in the ...

SUMY, Ukraine — In the first year of Russia’s all-out invasion, Ukraine’s defenders repeatedly outmaneuvered a lumbering Russian army, relying on improvisation and the judgment of men in the field.

The Ekranoplan concept was born in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Its design stemmed from the discovery of the ground effect, a phenomenon in which an aircraft flying close to a ...