Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

Technologically, the USSR lagged far behind in innovation ... China is not the new Soviet Union. And this is not 1955. It is 2025. And the future will not follow the path of the past.

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense ... stance of a powerful but benign peacemaker. Yet there is far more to Soviet arms spending than appears in the budget.

We went through the Gorbachev years of hope that the openings had arrived, and the future appeared ... and détente. The Soviet Union and the lives of its citizens became far more bourgeois ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders trumpeted a socialist future few truly ... of them all, the Soviet Union, was set to shutter ...