Born in Minsk, Belarus in 1966, he grew up under the Communist regime of Pyotr Masherov, a Belarusian revolutionary turned Soviet politician. His parents, professional musicians, decided to leave ...

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET IMMIGRATION. The growing community of immigrants from RUSSIA and the former Soviet Union is becoming a palpable presence in Cleveland. The influx of newcomers turned into a ...

Trump has been gifted with the first American Pope in history, though sadly for him, not one he can claim is part of the MAGA ...

Mikhail Gorbachev (left, signing an arms treaty with Ronald Reagan in 1987) publicly opposed space weapons, even as the Soviet Union’s prototype laser satellite (painted black) sat on the launch ...

People's Party (PP) list-MP Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the panel, said yesterday the conscript at the centre of the alleged exploitation was required to earn 3,000 baht a day from his taxi service.

Based on a novella by Soviet and political activist Georgy Demidov (1908-1987), Two Prosecutors begins with a screen credit noting the year as 1937 (“The height of Stalin’s terror”).

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's atmosphere. Tracked by various space agencies and individuals, the capsule ...

A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...

Its origins trace back to the 1960s, when Soviet engineer Rostislav Alexeyev designed a hybrid aircraft-boat that exploited ground effect, an aerodynamic phenomenon where wings gain increased lift ...

The Soviet-era spacecraft was built to withstand the scorching temperatures of Venus, so it’s likely that parts of it survived the heat of atmospheric reentry before crashing on Earth.

After failing to make it past Earth orbit on March 31, 1972, the remains of a Venus mission launched by the former Soviet Union circled our planet for years and was given the name Cosmos (or ...

Launched in 1972, it malfunctioned and remained in orbit for 53 years. After days of speculation, Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on Saturday (May 10), Russia's space agency ...