My journey from Poland into Ukraine was long and bumpy and way different from any train I'd taken before in the US and Europe ...

New recruit Vitalii Yalovyi knew one thing after completing the Ukrainian military's boot camp: He was not prepared for war.

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...

For five years, the Soviet Union tinkered with the jet train, even testing it on public rails. But the project collided with ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear-powered Arctic land train, the TES-3, designed to supply mobile power across remote Siberia. Built on a modified heavy tank chassis, the train ...

He trained as a historian at Leningrad State University. In 1976, while still a student, he began participating in propaganda activities against the Soviet communist dictatorship. Skobov, a socialist ...

Even as a ceasefire seems closer than ever, Sir Michael Fallon warned it won't end the Russian tyrant's Soviet revival fantasy - so Nato must make it impossible. Many fear any ceasefire deal which ...

The double agents most important work as a spy was to warn Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan about the dangerous paranoia that ran through Soviet leaders. His crucial information allowed NATO to ...

EIGHT DECADES after the event, Janis Cecins cannot know whether the Soviet train guard who transformed his family’s destiny was being kind or dim. Either way, the soldier allowed Mr Cecins’s ...

Transfer, or train wreck? The Soviet Union fell as it no longer believed in itself. “It consequently became impossible for Soviet citizens to agree on what policies and actions were legitimate ...

Oswald was a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas. Files in the new release include a memo from the CIA’s St Petersburg station from November 1991 saying ...