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Satellite photos show how Russia is building up 5 of its secret nuclear bases
New images assessed by Business Insider show new roadworks, buildings, and modifications, with some sites undergoing rapid ...
How a Chinese Border Town Keeps Russia’s Economy Afloat
The flow of goods in Manzhouli, China’s main border crossing with Russia, underscores increasingly close ties between the two ...
How Russia is putting symbols of its war on Ukraine on Scottish war memorials
Russian and Belarussians flags and St George’s ribbons, used as part of Vladimir Putin’s ‘Z-swastika’, are being put on ...
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Greetings from Moscow, Russia, where Lenin’s tomb attracts a new surge of visitors
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...
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Russia’s Old Bomber Force Is Now In a ‘Window of Vulnerability’
The Tu-95MS, nicknamed the “Bear,” was introduced in the 1950s as the Soviet Union’s answer to the American B-52. Despite being one of the only propeller-driven strategic bombers still in ...
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How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to ...
The public commitment of U.S. President John F. Kennedy to send Americans to the Moon was an overt challenge to the Soviet Union to demonstrate technological supremacy in space exploration.
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1980 Soviet Union squad was history's greatest international hockey ...
In Eric Zweig's book, "Twenty Greatest Hockey Goals," Fetisov said the 1980 team was "probably the best team ever put together in the Soviet Union. We never thought of losing, never thought it ...