Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing ...

Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon. Reading time 2 minutes On February 3, 1966, the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first ...

It’s no coincidence Netflix released “Miracle: The Boys of ’80” on the eve of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The 1-hour, 48-minute documentary is the latest project that examines how the 1980 United States ...

TASS FACTBOX. On February 5, 2026, the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms - the last remaining agreement regulating US-Russian strategic stability ...

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade in Red Square, Moscow – a carefully choreographed display of Soviet power and unity that stood in contrast to the ...

This week, the Kremlin hit a grim milestone in its ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 11, 2026, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against ...

After months of meticulous planning, the moment of reckoning was approaching quickly, and Nick Polano was getting nervous. Worried about being recognized by the wrong people — and the Portland, Ore., ...

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold highly classified secrets to the Soviet Union starting in the mid 1980s.

Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

Ukraine became a central industrial hub of the Soviet Union through massive state investment. Coal, steel, machinery, and weapons flowed from Ukrainian factories. Cities expanded rapidly to support ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...