Poland’s little-known Lantan rifle shows how much innovation could exist inside the Warsaw Pact—right up until Moscow decided ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union attempted to build a giant space battle station equipped with a laser powerful enough to destroy enemy satellites. The ambitious design called for a 95-metric-ton ...

The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" ...

Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...

Donald Trump has offered to help Vladimir Putin as Russia scrambles to contain a suspected outbreak of deadly airborne plague ...

Driven by the 1925 Scopes trial and Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Ilya Ivanov attempted to breed a human-chimpanzee hybrid in 1927 to prove evolution.

The transformation of this territory, however, was part of a much broader project. It was about constructing — and selling to ...

Iran is weaker now than the USSR was in 1985 as its economic lifelines are strangled. Could this be the end for Tehran's ...

Aaron is an aviation enthusiast and world traveler with a deep interest in aerospace history and technology. He has traveled ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

The federal cancer programme budget falls from 44.9 billion to 3.87 billion roubles in 2027 — a nearly 40-fold reduction ...