Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has accidentally said the government should support the illegal occupation of Ukraine by “the Soviet Union” ...

Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

Roman Surovtsev was prompt in picking up his two daughters from school every afternoon. It’s important to him to be there for his smiley 3- and 5-year-old girls, peppering them with questions about ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...

The fall of the USSR wasn’t just economic decay—it was pressure from Reagan’s foreign policy, military buildup, and covert strategy. While often overlooked, these moves helped unravel the Soviet ...

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the ...

Patrick David Sharrocks receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, grant number NE/S007458/1. On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...

As owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino’s—this city’s oldest and largest independent supermarket chains—I’ve spent my life keeping shelves stocked, workers employed and families fed. That’s what ...