"Podnieks on Podnieks" is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could ...

With Operation Barbarossa, the forces of the Third Reich commenced Hitler’s plan to destroy the Soviet Union and conquer its ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

During the Cold War, military secrets were at a premium, so when a Russian pilot decided to defect with his MiG 25, it was a ...

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is ...

The Gouzenko spy scandal reverberated throughout the world. In the United States as in Canada, there was heightened suspicion ...

I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. He will be remembered, at least in the West, as a pragmatic leader who ...

President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to resume nuclear testing for the first time since a moratorium was declared in 1993.

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...