Before becoming the Soviet Union's leader in 1982, Yuri Andropov spent decades navigating Stalin's political system, ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union attempted to build a giant space battle station equipped with a laser powerful enough ...

Imagine this as the scenario for a thriller. Four folk musicians with a social conscience decide on a daring humanitarian ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

The transformation of this territory, however, was part of a much broader project. It was about constructing — and selling to ...

On May 15, 1988, the Soviet Union began withdrawing from Afghanistan after eight years of military intervention that cost an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Soviet soldiers their lives and killed or ...

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 ...

The Russian Embassy on De La Thanh Street in Hanoi is one of the buildings that has caught my attention for some time. "De" ...

Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...

Driven by the 1925 Scopes trial and Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Ilya Ivanov attempted to breed a human-chimpanzee hybrid in 1927 to prove evolution.

(Continued)Contemporaneity with Japanese MetabolismIn 1960s Japan, there were proposals to reconstruct cities using massive ...

Alla Demidova turned 90 on September 29. An actress, writer, and scholar of Russia’s Silver Age, she has worked in film and theater with leading directors at home and abroad, including Andrei ...