During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

Before Huurre's decision to leave Finland in the early 1930s for the Soviet Union, she led a "perfectly normal life", says Hyrske. "In the book, she tries to explain it to herself and to the ...

Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington ...

As a student of sociology, my instinct was to examine what the people of Uzbekistan felt about this. So, I set out on my mini ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, even if we stuck with our country’s monolithic broadcaster. On the ...

Shishkova and Naumov were among many Russian skaters who sought a new life as coaches in the U.S. following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their profiles on the Skating Club of Boston website ...

“He lived in the Soviet Union for more than 30 years and now, he cannot go beyond that life experience,” said Karbalevich. Lukashenko, then 39, won Belarus’s first, and so far only ...