Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and ...

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed after the Civil war of 1921 as the World's first Marxist-Communist state in the world. After that it would become one of the biggest and most ...

A U.S. Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on July 30 to cap an unprecedented month of international Mars mission launches, including by the United Arab Emirates and China. The ...

The state took full responsibility for providing its citizens with daytime meals – the food was quick, cheap, and kept the engine running. People ate out in Imperial Russia too, but it was during the ...

The Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but long queues and empty store shelves are the main things many people remember about it. Goods were cheap but there were constant shortages.