General Prigozhin, the head of the 25,000 strong Wagner mercenary group, withdrew from operations in the Ukraine and demanded ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 ...

Former Chilean president Salvador Allende was warned by the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba that Chilean military officers were preparing a military coup against him, which was being ...

Telenko wrote: "58th Army of the Southern Military District, Ivan Popov, was one of the few competent Russian flag ranks. His ...

is ousted in a coup by hardliners (Aug 19); The Soviet coup fizzles out. Mikhail Gorbachov resumes as President of USSR (Aug 21-22); Moscow grants independence to the Baltic States of Lithuania ...