It’s tempting fate to roll into a battle in Ukraine while flying a giant flag from your armored vehicle. But that’s exactly ...

Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.

In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin ... This year—25 years after the Soviet Union’s collapse—I went back again, to meet these young ...