The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was shelved.

It was the USSR’s answer to the Space Shuttle - a ghostly twin, built in secrecy and launched only once. The Buran was a marvel of Soviet engineering - fully automated, reusable, and tragically ...

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within ...

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

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

For All Mankind’s universe is expanding with the upcoming spinoff Star City. Originally announced at Apple TV+ in April 2024 alongside a Season 5 renewal for the flagship show, Star City is set to ...

They had come to Brunswick Landing—the former Brunswick Naval Air Station—to celebrate the restoration of the plane that ...

On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.

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.

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 ...