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Sergei Lavrov was seen wearing a gray sweatshirt emblazoned with the Russian letters for USSR, and a black puffer vest as he ...
On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within ...
Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea ...
The economy of the Soviet Union was one of the most ambitious economic experiments in history. For over 70 years, the USSR ...
The Soviet Delta II class marked a key step in the evolution of ballistic missile submarines during the Cold War. In this ...
On August 19, 1757, the East India Company minted its first rupee coin in Kolkata. The Company established the Calcutta Mint ...
As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...
On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.