In the Cold War’s race for dominance, the Soviet Union developed the Ekranoplan - a hybrid between a plane and a ship.

Russian Investigative Committee/HandoutA Soviet-era plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia’s far east on Thursday as it ...

Russia's four-month offensive on the destroyed Donetsk town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, cost more lives than the 10 years of war Moscow waged under the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, new ...

Many of Russia's T-72 tanks have reportedly been exposed to the elements since the fall of the Soviet Union in late December 1991, and have likely suffered for it.

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At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms.

Russian and Belarussians flags and St George’s ribbons, used as part of Vladimir Putin’s ‘Z-swastika’, are being put on ...

Ultimately, whether or not Trump continues to pressure Putin rather than Ukraine remains to be seen, as the president has a ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country. It was established following a civil war in Russia that raged from 1917 to 1921. The Soviet Union controlled a vast amount of territory ...

"The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God,” says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s third-largest city, which borders Siberia.

A few days later, Bernie Sanders led a 12-person delegation (which included Jane Sanders) to the Soviet Union to establish a sister city relationship between Burlington, Vermont, and Yaroslav, Russia.

An Antonov An-24 passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia's far east on Thursday as it was preparing to land, ...