Following UN rules, it gave much of its contribution in rubles, an infamously unconvertible currency that generally limited Soviet actions overseas. In the hands of UN officials, however, these ‘weak’ ...

By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used unpowered balloons before World War II, and they made a resurgence in the Cold War. Now they’re being used in the Ukraine war, along with ...

“There are almost no studies devoted to the facts of cooperation between the Church and the Soviet authorities,” writes historian Nikolai Zayats. Red Army soldiers take out icons and church ...

Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

Following three days of commission sessions, the delegates, from 33 countries, embarked on a two-week tour of dams sponsored by the Soviet Ministry of Power Station Construction. Bowman’s 18-pag ...

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Ukraine is ultimately testing just how firm Moscow’s so-called red lines are. Vladimir Putin has clearly dusted off the old Soviet ideas around information operations and psychological warfare ...

It's clear to new Chattanoogans and long-timers alike that a slew of Californians have moved here in recent years, but have they brought Left Coast politics with them? An analysis of voter data by ...

The lack of transparency around Kamala Harris’ nomination as Democratic candidate for president reminds the writer, an immigrant from the former USSR, of Soviet-style machinations. Ministry of ...

Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German ...

Russia is deploying Soviet-era weapons to defend its Kursk region amid Ukraine's three-week-old incursion into the territory, a video published by Russia's defense ministry shows. The ministry ...