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

A favorite partner of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev, she was blocked from major international tours at the peak of her career after her free-spirited personal style angered the Kremlin.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome ...

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