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

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

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

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

Suzanne Parry plans on flying from Portland, Oregon, to Western New York to attend the upcoming Wilson High School Class of 1975 reunion. Few can match her experiences as a former international ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

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

'The Soviets didn’t train for aesthetics. They trained for war,' says hybrid athlete and author James Pieratt of Wild Hunt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.