Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

A cloud of death floats silently through Sverdlovsk. The Soviet Union claimed nothing was wrong—but hundreds were exposed to ...

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry. On the surface, it looked nearly identical - but its origins tell a deeper ...

The Soviet Army introduced the BMP-1, an infantry fighting vehicle, in 1966. It provided mechanized infantry squads the ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and ...

Once the Chinese had mastered those relatively simpler technologies, in 2015 Xi Jinping (習近平) launched the “Made in China 2025” strategic economic plan to initially reduce reliance on foreign ...

Founded in Canada in the 1980s, the Raging Grannies have gaggles around North America—and plenty to sing about.

The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent after the collapse of the Soviet ...

What should you do if you bought a Tesla before Elon Musk pledged his loyalty to Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda?

Recently, the output of the Soviet textile designer Anna Andreeva has been the subject of renewed interest among art ...