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When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war ...
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Soviet spacecraft coming back to Earth
A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...
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Book on Soviet dissidents wins Pulitzer Prize
The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" by Benjamin Nathans won a Pulitzer Prize on May 5. The Pulitzer Prizes are ...
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 ...
The Soviet Union and subsequent Russian Federation built some of the fastest jets to ever take to the air and not all of them ...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed a three-day ceasefire with Ukraine around the 9 May celebration – one of the ...
Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft launched in the 1970s, originally intended to land on Venus, is now expected to crash back to Earth. Nasa said that the Kosmos 482 spacecraft could reenter Earth’s atmosphere ...
A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...
About 20 heads of state are expected to attend Russia's May 9 Victory Day celebrations commemorating the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the most since Russia's invasion of ...