Sasha survived the Nineties too. In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin and the Russian tricolor went up, ushering in the decade that hangs ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing in Russian-occupied Ukrainian towns, CNN reported, as Western intelligence says Russia likely wants to secure major progress in its invasion ahead ...

A famous staged photo shows a Soviet soldier lifting the flag of the USSR above the historic parliament building. The city officially surrendered on 2 May, though fighting continued until the end ...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank. As the Allied forces moved in from the West to secure a German defeat in World War Two, the Soviet ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, land tenure issues, and the high cost of developing infrastructure. The ...

This year, they hoisted Soviet flags in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, including on a coal-loading crane in the Pyramiden harbor ...

Berrios, Ruben and Blasier, Cole 1991. Peru and the Soviet Union (1969–1989): Distant Partners. Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 23, Issue. 2, p. 365.

Hitler was willing to set aside his hatred of Communism for strategic gain. The two powers agreed the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact in late August. Hitler believed his path was clear and on 1 ...

Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, and Michelle Bond, a crypto policy advocate, were once a Washington power couple. Now they both face prison time. By David Yaffe-Bellany In his next documentary ...

When a Soviet flag was raised at a concert – “Songs of Victory” – organized in Tashkent on May 1, 2021, Qodirov called it an insult and provocation. “We consider it an insult to the ...