Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd, Russia draws a direct aesthetic lineage from Greek art and the Winged Victory of ...

Debates and interpretations surrounding the history of Korea's liberation and its aftermath have been intense, yet research ...

Brezhnev’s years are often remembered as a period of stability, but beneath the surface the Soviet economy was slowing down.

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that Washington grew "arrogant and self-confident" after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance. In ...

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 ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers ...

IT IS not certain whether on the day this article appears in print Bulganin and Khrushchev will be smiling or frowning: whether on that day they will be flattering President Eisenhower for his ...

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 ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...