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PNG's Judah Rimbu burrows under three defenders to score the first points against Australia.

It shows Ukrainian soldiers removing a Russian flag from a local school and throwing it onto the ground. "Glory to Ukraine!" the soldiers are heard shouting as One Plus One war correspondent ...

Russia Flags Slowing Economic Demand as Price Pressures Persist OPEC+ deal a supply-side constraint, central bank says Despite Bank of Russia’s tight policy, inflation has persisted ...

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 ...

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." ...

By Marc Santora Viktoria Roshchina, a 27-year-old reporter, had been detained by the Russian authorities after reporting from occupied territories in Ukraine. By Constant Méheut More than ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Jacob Judah President Vladimir V. Putin heightened his warnings against the West, asserting that Russia should be permitted to use nuclear arms in the event of an attack by ...

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 ...