From 1991 to 1999, Yeltsin’s eight-year rule was a rollercoaster of historic gains for freedom and crushing economic and ...

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous ...

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed.

Crimea had been under Russian administration for centuries, yet the Soviet Union abruptly reassigned it to Ukraine in 1954.

In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union stunned the world by launching two Vostok spacecraft into orbit within a day, flying ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

Community members gathered in AADL Sunday afternoon to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor — a man-made starvation that ...

On this day in 1981, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe.