Twenty years before Donald Trump was posting AI images of himself as a king, the internet learned how to meme by exaggerating ...

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Cheburashka was one of the bygone era’s few symbols that people found worth preserving.

AI-generated videos mocking President Donald Trump and the U.S. war with Iran are circulating on Chinese social media, ...

Near Vladivostok, on Russia’s far eastern coast, we discovered an abandoned Soviet coastal defense fortress hidden on the cliffs. Inside the massive gun emplacement were rusting machinery, giant ...

Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing ...

In 1966, three years before the first humans walked on the Moon, the Soviet Union landed a small, spherical probe, dubbed Luna 9, on the lunar surface. It was a historic moment, with the spacecraft ...

Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon. Reading time 2 minutes On February 3, 1966, the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first ...

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade in Red Square, Moscow – a carefully choreographed display of Soviet power and unity that stood in contrast to the ...

This week, the Kremlin hit a grim milestone in its ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 11, 2026, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against ...

After months of meticulous planning, the moment of reckoning was approaching quickly, and Nick Polano was getting nervous. Worried about being recognized by the wrong people — and the Portland, Ore., ...