As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

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Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

Their GreenGold Tea is one of several new companies that brought tea fields in and around Ozurgeti, Guria’s regional capital, ...

Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...

The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s, located across Pushkin Square on Gorky Street, opened on Jan. 31, 1990 — a yellow-arched symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika economic reforms.

Here’s one survey result I find revealing: Since the invasion began, around half of Russians have consistently told the ...