The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

On Friday, May 9, military parades and various festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over the Third Reich took place throughout Russia. The ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

It probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that speed is one of the key factors in designing fighter, attack, and interceptor aircraft. These military machines are used to fly out and ...

Community members gathered in AADL Sunday afternoon to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor — a man-made starvation that ...