The Russian presidential aide recalled that 85 years ago, the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact allowed the Soviet Union to avoid a two-front war, and Japan to gain time to refine its strategic plans in ...

Under the law, anyone who damages monuments to victims of the Soviet occupation - in Russia and abroad - will be jailed for ...

The LRU enrolls its youngest members from the age of 11 years before offering them to take oath at 18 years of age. The ...

Less fearful of the uncertainties ahead under Stalin than the guaranteed persecution under Hitler, many Polish Jews chose to head east.

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

The end of World War II brought victory for the Soviet Union, but it did not bring stability or relief. Under Joseph Stalin, ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. polikarpov Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the ...

TBILISI, March 17 (Reuters) - (This March 17 story has been corrected to remove the reference to Eduard Shevardnadze being the first post-Soviet president of Georgia, in paragraph 9) The spiritual ...

(Corrects to remove reference to Eduard Shevardnadze being the first post-Soviet president of Georgia in paragraph 9 of March 17 story) TBILISI, March 17 (Reuters) – The spiritual leader of the ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...

NANJING -- A memorial hall in eastern China on Wednesday said it has updated the information of the first group of 18 former Soviet Union airmen who sacrificed their lives to assist China in resisting ...