In 1668, Portugal was recognized as an independent nation by Spain. In 1861, the first Medal of Honor was awarded. It went to ...

On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

Baltic countries cut electricity ties with Russia, joining European energy networks, marking geopolitical shift and ...

Revisiting 'Back in the USSR', a forgotten solo album by former Beatles member Paul McCartney which was released exclusively in the Soviet Union back in 1988.