The Yak‑38 Forger was the Soviet Union’s answer to Western carrier‑based jets, a vertical takeoff and landing fighter built ...

Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries. New streamlined visa regulations are ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Among the Soviet Union’s many pioneering aircraft, one fighter stands out for its speed, agility, and enduring legacy.

The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...

Five of them were among the most prominent Yiddish writers left in the Soviet Union, and in the world, after the language and its literature were decimated by the Holocaust. All were also members of ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday that electoral corruption and illegal external financing from Russia were the ...