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

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The thriller has not only won critical plaudits, yesterday it clinched a ...

Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's ...

Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did not hit the natural satellite due to a failure in the launch vehicle control system. The probe slipped into ...

The so-called Volga Atom is an alleged top-secret nuclear-powered car developed in the USSR in the 1950s and '60s. The existence of such a vehicle has been hotly debated over the years ...

If Ukraine is not given strong security guarantees such as NATO, then Vladimir Putin may return with an army 10 times larger ...

Some of the global conflicts stem from the vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR. In what ways has the Ukraine crisis ...

Visitors look at the painting "The signing of the treaty on the formation of the USSR on Dec. 30, 1922, in the Bolshoi Theater" by Stepan Dudnik at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

As the crew gets drunker and drunker, the navigator sets a course, but the only sober crewmember can’t really read the ...