Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment. On the role of the USSR not only ...

Visitors look at the painting "The signing of the treaty on the formation of the USSR on Dec. 30, 1922, in the Bolshoi Theater" by Stepan Dudnik at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History ...

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative ...

If Ukraine is not given strong security guarantees such as NATO, then Vladimir Putin may return with an army 10 times larger ...

In one corner of the historical center, a St. Petersburg researcher asks an older woman about Jewish song; she responds by softly singing a melody. When a rail-thin, 85-year-old Jewish man enters ...

On this date, Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did not hit the natural satellite due to a failure in the launch vehicle ...

After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...