a tiny rotary phone, the base and receiver tethered by a thin piece of black thread. As humans, our tendency to think big has been one of our most defining assets. We have built cities, engineered ...

NPR's Brian Mann spends time with a Ukrainian mobile artillery unit as they prep their Soviet-era mobile cannon for a ...

In October 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war: the USA confronted the Soviet Union when the Soviets started placing ballistic missile silos in Cuba. Of course, the Soviets were doing this ...

The company, Mosfilm, had used armored vehicles from the Soviet era as props for decades. Now, with the Ukraine war chewing through stockpiles, Mosfilm is turning them over. “I was told they ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly independent Armenia became one of Russia’s closest allies, joining the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and aligning its economic ...

“This has led to a reliance on outdated and poorly maintained Soviet-era equipment from strategic storage depots. Armoured equipment is being hauled out of storage, upgraded where possible and s ...

One of the vehicles flew an old Soviet flag. “The attack was successfully repelled,” Officer+, a popular Ukrainian military blogger, reported Saturday. “The car with the rag”—the Soviet ...

Over coffee, the agents told Fainberg that they knew about his adventures in the former Soviet Union ... eventually accepted from him a cell phone that the DEA had tapped. During his undercover ...

Rivkin’s life is a great American story. He was born in the city of Pskov in what was then the Soviet Union. He made his way to America alone as a 19-year-old in 1976 amid the wave of Jewish ...

A meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of former Soviet nations has plunged into disarray when two of the leaders started bickering during a live broadcast MOSCOW -- A tightly ...