Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. A former Soviet aircraft carrier ...

Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

A Soviet B-59 submarine has been spotted off the southeast coast of the U.S. mainland in 1962. The White House draws up a plan, but they don't know that this sub is carrying a devastating nuclear ...

Journalists highlighted that the strike was likely carried out by a Soviet-made Su-27 aircraft ... Additionally, the delivery ...

Gaijin Entertainment announced the launch of a major content update in its action war game War Thunder. Titled “Dance of ...

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." ...

Historically, Russia’s military has always relied heavily on tanks and artillery, ultimately amassing one of the largest ...

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 dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

A host of memorial events are scheduled to take place on Tuesday as Poland prepares to mark 85 years since the Soviet Union invaded the country in the opening phase of World War II. Soviet ...

The photo of 19-year-old Ivana is appropriate for 1968, when Soviet tanks roared into Czechoslovakia overnight, I thought. I wondered when it had been taken. "Oh it's nothing to do with the ...

The lack of transparency around Kamala Harris’ nomination as Democratic candidate for president reminds the writer, an immigrant from the former USSR, of Soviet-style machinations. Ministry of ...