Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry says seven people linked to a Kremlin-funded media outlet in Baku have been detained after a ...

In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of ...

Between 1942 and 1945, South African charities such as the Medical Aid for Russia and the Friends of the Soviet Union, raised about £1m (approximately R1.2 billion today) to purchase and donate ...

Kosmos 482 was launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1972 as part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction.

Here’s how it works. A mock-up of the Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe, similar to Kosmos 482, a Venus lander is expected to crash back to Earth on or around May 10, 2025.(Image credit: NASA) ...

May 2 (UPI) -- A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft is set to make a somewhat delayed reappearance as it slams into the Earth in the next few weeks. As well as this, the series of probes ...

Unlike the Soviet Union, which was largely excluded from the Western economic system, China has become central to it. China's rise is not a miracle—it is a return.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

In typical Soviet fashion, the Yak-3 was an exemplar of minimalism. Weighing just under 5,900 pounds when fully loaded, it was significantly lighter than many of its contemporaries, a trait that ...

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...

Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union Published on this day in 1973, “The Gulag Archipelago” drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...