In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

The struggle of Panov, who was half Jewish, to leave the Soviet Union was taken up by Western political leaders and arts celebrities, and it served to dramatize the plight ...

Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s journey to the United States for medical treatment has once again ...

In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

The IS-2 tank, introduced by the Soviet Union during World War II, was a battlefield monster that struck fear into the hearts ...

The Kremlin seeks to marginalize and delegitimize nations once colonized by the U.S.S.R., including Lithuania, Estonia, ...

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower built on centralized control, rapid expansion—and eventual collapse. Explore ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's existence was no longer justified, historian Yevgeny Spitsyn said in the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA's YouTube channel.

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth's orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Most of it came tumbling down within a ...