THE HEAT IS ON: Russia faces a dilemma — while it contributes to global warming through fossil fuels, Siberia is heating up ...

The crash of flight 5143, a Tu-154 on July 10, 1985, remains the deadliest air disaster in Soviet history. Carrying 200 ...

Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries. New streamlined visa regulations are ...

The Yak‑38 Forger was the Soviet Union’s answer to Western carrier‑based jets, a vertical takeoff and landing fighter built ...

One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a ...

The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...

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.