Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

Walking down the truck-sized ramp to the 47-ton blast door of the decommissioned Atlas missile silo, our conversation echoes ...

Europe is in the throws of self-inflicted demographic suicide. Goodbye.

Even at the height of the East-West Cold War, the old Soviet Union did not share its nuclear weapons technology. While the US provided Britain with the Polaris system (and more recently Trident ...

The Soviet Union's athletic training programs were renowned for their effectiveness, but they incorporated brutal methods. Young athletes were identified early ...

Something more akin, perhaps, to a grand restructuring in the spirit of the Soviet era’s Perestroika or America’s 1930s New Deal. For one, there’s the relative secrecy with which Draghi — the Italian ...

Moscow has not conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1990, the year before the fall of the Soviet Union, but some Western ... Pictured in his naval uniform alongside a cabinet holding a book ...

Russia to spend 6.3% of GDP on national defence Highest level since the Cold War Defence spending at $145 billion, budget shows Defence spending a third of all spending Defence and security ...

“He takes the advice of the central bank governor, because he is very well aware that this is what brought down the Soviet Union. “But this is a very high interest rate, and it's not really ...

Vladimir Putin is all too aware that economic pressure brought down the Soviet Union as he is forced to hike defence spending and slash social benefits to fund his war in Ukraine, according to Western ...