Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has found success in both scripted and documentary films, many of which explore the ...

Summary: The T-60S bomber was a highly ambitious Soviet aircraft project aimed at modernizing their intermediate-range bomber fleet, replacing older models like the Su-24 and Tu-22M. Originating from ...

India, Feb. 14 -- A prominent critic of Stalin's policies and Soviet- era political analyst and author Roy Medvedev died on ...

Sergei Krikalev watched the Soviet Union collapse from 200 miles above Earth, unsure when he would ever come home. Then, years earlier, Skylab 4 became the center of a “strike” story that NASA still ...

"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...

Few would deny that the EU now also has a Soviet-style “nomenklatura”; a new class of “Eurocrats” which also enjoys legal ...

EADaily, . We were part of the Soviet Union, and it is impossible to erase it. Abdulla Rasulov, Doctor of Historical Sciences ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

Galina’s story is not unique. Tens of thousands of elderly Jews across the former Soviet Union—many of them Holocaust survivors—are living in extreme poverty. According to the American Jewish Joint ...

After months of meticulous planning, the moment of reckoning was approaching quickly, and Nick Polano was getting nervous. Worried about being recognized by the wrong people — and the Portland, Ore., ...