The exiled Russian journalist told CNN's Amanpour that Putin and his allies believe Trump will end the US role as a bastion ...

Here’s why the IL-86 never took off like its Western rivals.

“Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to fly in combat units … the Soviets ...

The Northern Sea Route goes for 5600km from the Kara Sea to the Bering Strait, connecting Western Russia to the Far Eastern territories. In the 1930s, the USSR started building hundreds of ...

In 1985, an ailing solar observation satellite in orbit over 300 miles above the Earth was the target of a United States Air ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik. Americans feared the implications of the first man-made satellite orbiting above the Earth. Astronaut Frank Borman recalled, "I was teaching at ...

once the oldest and most important building for Lithuanian Jews before it was destroyed by the Nazis and razed by the Soviets. Archeologists found the synagogue floor decorated with red ...

Coined “miracle on ice,” the Americans beat the heavily favored Soviets 4-3. The dramatic “miracle on ice” U.S.A vs. U.S.S.R men’s ice hockey semifinal championship game during the 1980 ...

President Eisenhower and the Cold War and Civil Rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a fixture in the lists of America's favourite Presidents. How did Eisenhower change America? How did the Cold War and ...

What happened to all those African and Asian nations who have almost automatically got up, echoed the Soviet lamentations about imperialism – ours – and automatically voted with the Soviets?