The ministry said Soviet occupation authorities during that period arrested and deported tens of thousands of Hungarian- and ...

The Soviet R-7 began as the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, designed to travel thousands of miles carrying ...

On 2 September 1991, the Congress of People’s Deputies voted for the dissolution of the Soviet Union, allowing its republics to opt for independence ...

At an incredible seven miles deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is an impressive achievement of engineering and a small glimpse into our energy future.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

For those Star Trek fans who may not know, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev was fine, and he officially resigned from office ...

The author contrasts FDR’s 1933 recognition of Stalin’s USSR (amid the Holodomor) and Paul Robeson’s praise of the Soviets ...

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...

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Fifteen years after setting a world record in the English Channel, 30-year-old American endurance swimmer Lynne Cox entered the 38°F (3.3°C) waters of the Bering Strait and completed a historic ...