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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody ...

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

Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the demise of the Soviet Union and helped end decades of Cold War fear, earning a Nobel Peace Prize and the lasting enmity of millions of Russians bitter about the ...

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 ...