After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...

A red installation of the word “Victory” sits outside Yubileiny Palace of Culture with its facade decorated with a mosaic portrait of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) ...

It wouldn't be the first time, either. Back in 1978, a Soviet satellite spread radioactive debris across Canada's Far North You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

This article by Major and M.A. Le Minh Nam honors the contributions of Soviet military experts who assisted Vietnam during its resistance war against the United States. Colonel Anatoly Nazarov, Vice ...

The supposed incident occurred between 1989 and 1990. A declassified CIA file from the Cold War era that details a purported encounter between Soviet soldiers and a UFO in Ukraine has sparked ...

On a gusty Saturday afternoon in March, two men crack open a Soviet-made hangar, then scramble to slow the door’s movement as gravity takes over. The 33-ton blast door rumbles along a steel ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

In October, 1962, near the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine in the Caribbean was shaken by depth charges from a U.S. ship. Convinced that he was under attack, the submarine ...

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...

Following last edition’s trip to the Czech Republic, we are staying in Europe this time round with Soviet Jeans, the buzziest show to come out of Latvia this decade. The series — part-love ...