Republicans are condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “Soviet” leader who runs a “communist” country, even though the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...

An initiative group of Russians in Washington plans to hold a march of the Immortal Regiment with Soviet symbols, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called Great Patriotic War [as ...

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes spent four months traveling to Venus ...

Latvia toppled a towering Soviet-era monument commemorating the Red Army victory over Nazi Germany, the latest in a series of monuments that have been pulled down in Eastern Europe amid growing ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing ...

A Cuban defector flew a Soviet-era biplane from the communist island on Friday and landed it safely at an isolated airstrip in the Everglades west of Miami, authorities said. The pilot radioed the ...

Nearly 2,000 singing, banner-waving college and high school students took part in a “Jericho March” here today, as part of an effort to bring down “the walls of hate and prejudice” which separate the ...

"In about two weeks from now, on or near May 9-10, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen." In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran ...

Students representing all British universities marched to the Soviet Embassy in London yesterday, protesting against the treatment of Soviet Jewry and leaving a petition, signed by 5,000 students and ...