As Ukraine marks the anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of Crimean Tatars more than eight decades ago, members of the ...

Peace will not come through dialogue with Putin, a man who sees war as his lifeline. It will come only by applying the ...

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.

Adelia Petrosian has been cleared to compete in Olympic figure skating qualifying and is a gold-medal contender.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth ... Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians indicated ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.

The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location.

After the accident, it was given the name Cosmos — the title given to intentional and unintentional objects left in orbit by the USSR starting in 1961. This mock-up of the Soviet Union’s ...

Putin’s proposal came after leaders from four major European countries threatened to ratchet up pressure on Moscow if it does ...

Human Rights Watch says at least 100 civilians in Burkina Faso were killed by government forces near the town of Solenzo in ...