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 ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought an edge in undersea warfare by designing the Lira-class (Alfa) submarines with ...

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

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

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

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

A referendum that constitutionally enshrines a national objective to join the E.U. passed by a thin margin. The incumbent pro ...

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 ...

Moldova’s crucial referendum on joining the European Union is too close to call, partial results showed Monday, as President ...

YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Soviet military maps drawn in the 1970s should not be the only blueprint for delineating Armenia’s ...