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Yunarmia is not alone. Other Russian state-sponsored organisations that have moved in include "Movement of the First Ones" ...
Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...
The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...
Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA ...
James Lloydovich Patterson, child star of Soviet-era film, dies at 91 The son of an African American father and a Russian mother, he starred at age 3 in a propaganda film mythologizing Soviet ...
The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...
THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...
One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...
In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...
It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has lessons to share.