In late May 2025, several Russian public figures — including presidential adviser Anton Kobyakov — claimed that legally speaking, the Soviet Union still exists and that the breakup of the USSR by its ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

As the Ukraine conflict drags on and Russia nears completion of its nuclear modernization effort, experts ask: how many ...

Born in Marc Chagall's hometown in Belarus, the Russian Jewish dancer Valery Panov, who made aliyah to Israel, has died at 87 ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

New Mexican' covered fallout from 1945 Santa Fe meeting where Manhattan Project spy passed along plutonium bomb plans to his ...