Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

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Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will likely visit Mongolia in July, the first trip to the country by a reigning imperial ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even ...

Zaza Pachulia’s path from the Republic of Georgia to the NBA was far different from the path his sons are navigating in the ...

The plane never entered serial production, but it did contribute mightily to the overall design and development of future Russian aircraft.

Russia is clearly committed to the Lada-class. But it is a submarine that does not—and will never—live up to the expectations.

State television news has focused coverage on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad. Read more at ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...