The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...

The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon us. US Department of Defense data predicts that the rugged, half-ton spacecraft once bound for ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

In Kyiv, Soviet-era monuments to Russian-Ukraine unity still stand. But should they? The Motherland Monument in Kyiv, lighted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.

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 West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has lessons to share.

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

The German Embassy in Moscow issued an apology after it shared a map that showed an altered flag of the Soviet Union into a symbol resembling that of the Nazis. This after the Russian Foreign Ministry ...

There was quite a stir in an over-60s block of flats in Dunkirk Road, Southampton after the Russian presidential flag and the Soviet Union State Emblem appeared in a communal walkway last month.