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

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

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

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science ...

Swing-wing fighter jets, planes that can change the sweep angle of its wings in flight, are a fascinating thing. Here are the ...

In 2010, a worldwide ban on cluster bombs went into effect. Cluster bombs, usually dropped from planes, are filled with ...

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

The NBA’s rise post-Soviet era saw a wave of Eastern European talent, with Lithuania emerging as a basketball powerhouse. For ...

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 ...

There have been many artists too spicy for primetime but the Soviet Union knew that some musicians could have been too erotic ...

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

Built at a time when the Soviet Union was trying to project naval power on par with the West, the Admiral Kuznetsov carried ...