Articles by topic Soviet Union“Mass political repression in the USSR, especially in the period of the ‘Great Terror’ (1937-1938) have become one of the most tragic pages of the history of Ukraine,” ...

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, in 1957, he constructed a telescope so that he and his friends could watch the satellite travel across the night sky.

BERLIN, June 21, 1941 (UP) - Following is the text of the German declaration by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop: ...

Senaator Rand Paul (R-KY) condemned Saturday's military parade in Washington, comparing it to similar marches in the Soviet Union and North Korea.

The problem is that I already feel permanently guilty about owning too many books for my very small cottage. My passion (or should I say addiction?) goes back to my first life, in the Soviet Union, ...

MORE complete figures relating to the census of the Soviet population taken on January 17, 1939, have been issued by the State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R. The figures cover the entire ...

Teachers union president Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC “I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging,” she wrote in a letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin.

On July 10, 1962 the Telstar communications satellite was the first private space mission to launch.

Russia is advancing around Kostyantynivka and in the Sumy region with small, fast-moving units as both sides try a new tactic of using motorcycles and civilian cars to quickly cross open terrain.

Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy ...