A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

Pentecost and ‘Russia Day’ fell just a few days apart. ‘Where are you, my Church?’ asked Father Andrej Misjuk bitterly, ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and ...

When Frank Sinatra popularized “Fly Me to the Moon,” he was probably envisioning a trip up on NASA’s Apollo Lunar Module, ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The Soviet Union’s pioneering space missions were among the first to penetrate the thick, toxic clouds of Venus and reveal ...

The U.S. must take the Turkic world seriously, and soon — not just in words, but with a presidential visit, sustained ...

White House Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both ...

For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of the ...

The four-member crew also has astronauts from Poland and Hungary – countries that, like India, are sending their nationals to ...

in what local Friends of History docent Dan Kitrell described “as perhaps the Soviet Union’s greatest atomic espionage success.” On a bridge in Santa Fe in June 1945, spy Klaus Fuchs ...