Walking down the truck-sized ramp to the 47-ton blast door of the decommissioned Atlas missile silo, our conversation echoes ...

Significantly, this was the moment when Marshal Stalin was preparing the first ... have now been established for the first time in the history of the Soviet Union. At the Rzhev front I saw Russian ...

Hillers’ account of assaulted women, including herself, forming relationships with Soviet officers for protection ... Army Corps (WAAC) modelling uniforms, 1942. (Photo by ...

Europe is in the throws of self-inflicted demographic suicide. Goodbye.

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

About 10% of total defence spending will go to military personnel payments, which have also hit a post-Soviet high with the minimum annual wage in the first year of service at the frontline ...

“He takes the advice of the central bank governor, because he is very well aware that this is what brought down the Soviet Union. “But this is a very high interest rate, and it's not really ...

Vladimir Putin is all too aware that economic pressure brought down the Soviet Union as he is forced to hike defence spending and slash social benefits to fund his war in Ukraine, according to Western ...

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 ...

The history of the Soviet authorities’ fighting against religion and the Russian Orthodox Church is quite dramatic and complicated. We've already written in detail about it here. We would only ...

Russia has exhausted its Soviet-era energy reserves and the country's electric power industry is in need of funding, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev said. Speaking at an economic forum in ...

Russia and China this week engaged in the largest military drills in some 30 years after they launched joint naval and air exercises spanning both hemispheres on Tuesday, a report by Reuters ...