Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a state visit to Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings ...

Vladimir Putin, Russia's longest-serving president, marked his 73rd birthday with praise from supporters, highlighting his ...

Polar bears have taken over a former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics era abandoned polar research center in the ...

Russian state-controlled media outlet Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote: “Vyacheslav Leontiev, a well-known Soviet publisher and ...

In 1945, as World War II came to a close, tensions simmered beneath the Allied victory raising the question: could the U.S.

The Battle of Mogadishu proved the RPG-7’s effectiveness against low-flying aircraft in dense urban environments. Often costing under $500 per launcher, the RPG-7’s low cost, coupled with its proven ...

The National Cold War Center (NCWC) will host a Cold War Conversation on Nov. 7 with special guest Pavel Palazhchenko, chief ...

Forced to resign on December 9, 1999, he left for his unremarkable successor Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin a state on the brink of ubiquitous domestic as well as foreign decline. Third, the creation of ...

On this day in history, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, officially making the Space Age. The 184-pound sphere circled the Earth every 90 minutes, ...

Health spas have long made fantastical claims for their curative benefits, but Tskaltubo’s “Waters of Immortality” must ...

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 ...