In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air ...

Pobeda festival commemorates Soviet victory in Second World War, organized by Russian consulate with support from Indian ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was up to residents of Volgograd to decide whether the city should revert ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th ...

MOSCOW, May 1, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russia will hold its "Intervision" music competition in September, organisers announced on ...

Russia will hold its “Intervision” music competition in September, organisers announced on Wednesday, after authorities ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the Institute for Systemic and ...

Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on ...