In 1949, the USSR shocks the world by detonating its first atomic bomb far sooner than expected. This episode reveals how ...

Road to Revenge, his sequel to the 2022 sleeper hit Sisu, plants us in the grim fringes of Soviet-controlled territory.

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union were wrong and that claims Putin plans to invade a NATO member were complete ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...

As Steve Witkoff meets with Putin over a Ukraine deal, security assurances remain a sticking point. Ukraine has been offered ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union devised a shocking plan to weaponize asteroids in a project nicknamed Ivan’s Hammer.

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 8 and 14 December were captured on The Independent’s ...

The Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield, still in its nascent phase, could fundamentally transform nuclear strategy ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov directly addressed remarks made Monday by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had stated that Putin wanted to bring back the "old Soviet Union" and that Europe needed ...

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...