From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China’s Chou En-lai arrived by plane, ...

During the Cold War, military secrets were at a premium, so when a Russian pilot decided to defect with his MiG 25, it was a ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s nimble F ...

WHEREVER he went—and, as it turned out, whatever he said—Anastas Mikoyan got rave notices from his cold-war-weary U.S. audiences. “Forthright,” was the word used by Detroit industrialists after lunch ...

Is there anything more time-honored in military aviation circles than poking fun at post-Soviet Russian jet fighters? It's like as soon as the hammer and sickle flag descended from the Kremlin, never ...

The Soviet MiG-23 “Flogger” was a 1960s variable-sweep wing fighter designed to replace the MiG-21 by offering greater speed ...

MOSCOW -- Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His ...

“From Ilyich to Ilyich, no stroke, no heart attack”, the Ukrainian gentleman muttered. We were chatting at a wedding reception a few decades ago. He had emigrated from the Soviet Union, and somewhere ...

Daniel Filer, then 61, privately owns the Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-23U he was flying that day at the air show, held at Willow Run ...