In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

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.’ ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

Ilia Malinin, known as the "Quad God," landed the elusive quad axel jump a few years ago, sparking questions about the future ...

The Soviet Union wasn’t just authoritarian — it was structurally bizarre. Daily life blended advanced science with ...

A Kremlin official says that Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal.

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela ...

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...