On this day in 1981, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe.

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new ...

In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union stunned the world by launching two Vostok spacecraft into orbit within a day, flying ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be ...

US experts Norman Roule and Mark Dubowitz predict the Iranian regime's collapse, drawing parallels to the Soviet Union's ...

Community members gathered in AADL Sunday afternoon to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor — a man-made starvation that ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked ...