The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...

The memorial in St Petersburg to 'Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi Genocide' On the edge of St Petersburg stands a dramatic memorial more than 40 metres high. At the very top is the ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union’s role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family members of Soviet ...

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

Pan right view of adult Soviet soldier smoking cigarette and reading map in folder while sitting at table in old house during World War II Pan right view of adult Soviet soldier smoking cigarette and ...

It was especially the colour palette of terracotta, wormwood, dusted greens, turquoise, and lemon yellow that attracted her to the 80s film, set in Soviet-era Moscow ... Arctic Circle collection show ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...