Poland’s little-known Lantan rifle shows how much innovation could exist inside the Warsaw Pact—right up until Moscow decided ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union attempted to build a giant space battle station equipped with a laser powerful enough ...

Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...

Donald Trump has offered to help Vladimir Putin as Russia scrambles to contain a suspected outbreak of deadly airborne plague ...

The transformation of this territory, however, was part of a much broader project. It was about constructing — and selling to ...

Iran is weaker now than the USSR was in 1985 as its economic lifelines are strangled. Could this be the end for Tehran's ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

The federal cancer programme budget falls from 44.9 billion to 3.87 billion roubles in 2027 — a nearly 40-fold reduction ...

The Soviet Union competed with Western aircraft, but had to contend with less advanced navigation systems and avionics.

"Why did the two massive Cold War groups—'the West led by America' and 'the East led by the Soviet Union'—begin to crumble ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...