The Tupolev Tu-22 started as the Soviet Union’s bold attempt at supersonic strategic dominance. But in 1986, it found ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The CIA released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...

This week on Who What When, we look at the Cold War era with questions about the geopolitical conflict between the United ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous – but are now voting for the far right. They say the Germany they once ...

The CIA declassified nearly 1,500 pages of documents on Thursday, shedding light on its investigation into the 1968 ...