ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

Dmitry Peskov noted that he does not agree with expert opinions drawing parallels between the current situation in the United States and the turbulence experienced by the Soviet Union in the 1980s ...

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as ...

In the height of the Cold War, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini designed a radical concept: a 2,500-ton flying aircraft carrier ...

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In the 1960s, the USSR tested a weapon system that could literally drop nuclear bombs from orbit. Known as FOBS - Fractional ...

Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

On June 16, 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

On June 16, 1999, police arrested Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Ann Soliah, a member of the terrorist ...

The Soviets believed that this attack would only work if the missiles were launched within one minute. If they waited even ...