The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an ...

On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly to space. On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French ...

Take a look at some Soviet propaganda posters that were created to fight the Russian Orthodox Church. A poster published in the ‘Bezbozhnik u Stanka’ (literally 'The Godless at the Workbench ...

From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces before being accepted into the Soviet space programme in March of 1960.

In 1959, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted a covert operation to gain insight into Soviet space technology. The CIA targeted a Soviet exhibit showcasing a Luna 2 model to ...

Voters in Moldova will cast their ballots Sunday in two crucial votes, which have been billed as the most consequential in ...

Russia is behind a disinformation campaign in Moldova ahead of a presidential election and a referendum making E.U.

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

Sensing political opportunity in the Russian-speaking community following the episode, the AfD began to translate its electoral program into Russian, started hanging up Russian-language posters and ...

The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union developed in the late 1940s. Yet its age wasn't the main attraction. Russia has, after all, been regularly deploying Cold War ...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly feeling the strain of economic pressures that resemble those that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Forced to increase defence spending while cutting back on ...

A tall chimney stack is a lone relic from the site's time as a Soviet sock factory ... Several companies have already secured space in what is poised to become Europe's largest tech campus ...