In 1935 Soviet humorists Ilf and Petrov were allowed to visit the United States where they embarked on a cross-country road ...

Red Army commanders highly valued the ‘Willys’ for its excellent driving characteristics. And, after the war, provincial ...

Burmanization is a form of oppressions that minority ethnic communities across Burma had to endure for centuries. It became ...

"The colonel was no low-level KGB thug," Mr. Daniloff wrote of the man who interrogated him for 30 hours when he was jailed ...

Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...

The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the ...

On October 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

An archival label in the United States was going to release a huge compilation of records from the U.S.S.R. Then Russia ...

The referendum on Moldova's accession to the EU was finally declared valid. At the beginning of the elections, pro-Russian ...

But China’s leader, Xi Jinping, worries about how long-lived his party’s rule will be. Amid the festivities, state media have ...

The resilience of the people of Ukraine is reflected in music recorded during periods of immense societal and political ...