It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

Warsaw is ready to transfer more MiG 29s to Ukraine if NATO countries relocate fighter jets to bases in Poland.

Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan, shocking both the Soviet ...

North Korea's latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Oct. 31 underscores the unusual aircraft's importance ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

At the age of 17, my parents both joined a trade union when they began earning a monthly stipend of less than $2. This in the ...

Every second Thursday, FIFA recalls a FIFA World Cup thriller. This looks at how Belgium overcame a hat-trick from Soviet Union’s Igor Belanov at Mexico 1986.

In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

The video game that helped end the Cold War (kind of) is honoured with an interactive museum featuring 18 different versions, ...