The story of Mathias Rust's flight from Helsinki to Moscow in 1987 is probably one of the strangest episodes of the Cold War. Twenty-five years ago Rust, a 19-year-old German with about 50 hours of ...

In May 1987, Mathias Rust, an amateur German pilot, flew a rented Cessna aircraft from Finland to Moscow, evading Soviet air defenses and improbably landing on Red Square near the Kremlin. Rust's ...

MOSCOW — The single-engine Cessna aircraft, flying just 10 yards off the ground, buzzed Red Square three times. But too many people were on the square that May evening for a landing. So the plane ...

The memorial was opened just ahead of the 35th anniversary of the flight, by Mathias Rust, which falls today, Saturday, while the location, Saka Manor in Ida-Viru County, lies at the point where Rust ...

In 1987 a West German teenager shocked the world, by flying through Soviet air defences to land a Cessna aeroplane in Red Square. He was jailed for more than a year - but a quarter of a century later, ...

Mathias Rust, the German who caused a sensation when he made an unauthorized landing in Moscow's Red Square in 1987, was fined by a German court yesterday for shoplifting a sweater from a department ...

May 28, 1987, turned out to be a bad day for two of the most senior members of the Soviet Union’s military. The reputedly impregnable air defenses that ringed Moscow had been breached, a disaster for ...

A sweeping purge of top brass in the Moscow air defense command was announced Wednesday in a newspaper report that contained the harshest official criticism in memory of the Soviet military ...

Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, hinted at the possibility of Ukrainian drones reaching Moscow and beyond. Source: Danilov on Twitter Quote: ...