In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory – a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

Was the USSR a true empire or a union of equals? 🇷🇺 Dive deep into the political structure, ethnic control, and ideological ...

In a display of Vladimir Putin’s expansionist ideology, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Alaska wearing a ...

Khomenko, Troshkin/Sputnik Moscow would have faced tremendous trouble had Tokyo launched an attack and opened a front in the East in 1941. However, after its full-scale military defeat in 1939, Japan ...

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was spotted wearing a USSR sweatshirt as he arrived in Anchorage ahead of Russia’s highly anticipated summit with US president Donald Trump.

RUSSIA rolled into Alaska with a swagger – and a sneer – before Vladimir Putin even set foot on US soil. From a USSR sweatshirt to Chicken Kiev cutlets, Moscow dialled up its twisted ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States found themselves locked in a chilling race to nuke the moon, declassified military documents reveal. Following the end of the ...

The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...

The captivating art of Andrey Tkachenko creates an original universe that is gaining traction with fans from all corners of the world. The USSR of artist Andrey Tkachenko is different from what it was ...

Thirty years ago in December, the Soviet Union was dissolved. During its almost seven decades of existence, the communist regime committed brutal crimes, including imprisoning or killing millions of ...