This Soviet biplane first took to the skies in 1947. It was actively used in the civil air fleet, cargo transportation and ...

Moscow has stepped up efforts to refurbish old equipment, including Soviet-era tanks used as props in films, after losing an ...

The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at ...

During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’ ...

Russia's military resorts to deploying vintage Soviet tanks due to severe equipment shortages amid ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly ...

Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Irwin Shaw, Mark Twain are just a few of the writers whose works were adapted for the screen ...

A Soviet experiment by Alexander Meshcheryakov showed blind-deaf children could learn to communicate, leaving a lasting ...

This gigantic monument in Bulgaria sits atop a desolate mountain and offers a grandiose (albeit crumbling) example of ...

Russian losses of military equipment in the war in Ukraine have led to the dependence of the aggressor state of russia on ...

In 2018, Sergei Skripal - a former Russian military officer who became a British informant - was poisoned with Novichok ...