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

In 1971, a covert Soviet bioweapons test on Vozrozhdeniye Island resulted in a smallpox outbreak near Aralsk. What followed was a cover-up of one of the most dangerous lab leaks in history.

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

Russia has said that it no longer considers itself bound by the terms of the treaty it signed with the United States decades ...

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 ...

Russia has declared it's no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on deploying nuclear-capable ...

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

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

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

In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US ...

While the US State Department has Ihar Losik on its radar, it is not yet known whether Pope Leo XIV is aware of the case.

Anticipating Lake, who accused Voice of America of refusing to identify the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel as a ...