War in the Middle East may be roiling markets and testing global stability, but one priority endures for Vladimir Putin’s ...

In 1977 Soviet Armenia, two brothers, Nikolay and Felix Kalachyan, pulled off the most daring bank heist in USSR history, stealing 1.5 million rubles from the State Bank in Yerevan using nothing but a ...

At times of political instability and crisis, Soviet authorities turned to Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet to inspire calm and ...

Yakov Kronrod was a leading figure of the Soviet economic school of so-called marketeers (tovarniki) and a major participant ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...

The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their artillery failed to kill him. Entire units refused to advance because of his skills. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. ‘A second chance’: Kansas City officers rescue mother dog, ...