The USSR had organized special sanatoriums for people left disabled after the war. Conditions there were not as appalling as the rumors claimed. Here’s why... “Hundreds of thousands of disabled people ...

A.Kovtun, B. Korzin/TASS After colonial empires in Africa collapsed, Moscow did all it could to make “African comrades” embrace socialism – but the romance didn’t last long. “During yet another crisis ...

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The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The expert pointed to the Kremlin's fatal mistake. The increase in spending on war shows that Russia is confidently following ...

Bon Jovi’s 1989 performance at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in what was then the USSR remains a hugely impactful moment in history, representative of the world’s slow emergence from the Cold War.

It was a cold and grey afternoon in early November, 1984, when I, a first grader in Kharkiv—a city in what was then Soviet Ukraine—walked home after school with high spirits and feeling ready to ...

A quarter-century after the Cold War came to a close, the only cannon that actually fired in space has finally come to light. Installed on the Almaz space station in the 1970s, the R-23M Kartech was ...

Ah, the USSR. It was a strange place with strange ideas. Ideas such as planting unprotected mini nuclear power sources into inhospitable and hard-to-reach areas. I mean, nothing should go wrong as ...