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

The Tupolev TB-3 was a machine that looked impossible even by 1930s standards - an all-metal, four-engine bomber so large and strange that it carried smaller fighter planes strapped to its wings. It ...

Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

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

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Russia has revived the “Intervision” international song contest, a Cold War-era project once seen as the socialist bloc’s answer to Eurovision, staging its 2025 debut in Moscow with Vietnam’s Duc Phuc ...

Vodka and Russia. The former is so ingrained in the identity of the latter, it’s hard to imagine restrictions on its sale and production. But in 1985, the Soviet Union’s newly appointed general ...

Igor Kirillov, the Soviet newscaster who anchored the USSR's main evening news for three decades, has died at age 89. Russians laid to rest today the man known as the face and voice of the USSR. Igor ...

A strange and largely forgotten U.S. delegation to the USSR in 1963 offers lessons about autism, diagnosis, and politics, ...

The Intervision Song Contest will see 23 artists from around the world — including one representing the U.S. — offer a heady ...