The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing. Advertisement. ... It was probably also the most sudden revolution the globe’s oceans have ever experienced.

Warfronts. The KGB: How Soviet Intelligence Waged a Shadow War Across the Globe. Posted: May 14, 2025 | Last updated: May 14, 2025. Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature ...

The Soviet Union decided to develop an equivalent to the M2 in the late 1920s. In the early 1930s, gun designer Vasily Degtyaryov produced a limited run of a clunky gas-operated 12.7-millimeter ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Built to land on the solar system’s hottest ...

A man wearing a Soviet military hat poses for a picture outside a regional government building in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine April 21, 2014. MARKO DJURICA/Reuters ...

Each week, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or ...

Not long ago, a user on a Russian online forum posted a photo of a McDonald's badge with the Soviet flag. “My father worked at the first McDonald's in the USSR and was given this badge,” he wrote.

The Soviet Embassy in Washington on this day in 1983 released a letter from Yuri Andropov, the newly installed Soviet leader, to Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old Maine fifth-grader.

Contributed to The Globe and Mail. Published March 15, 2025Updated March 16, 2025. Share. ... The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is a finalist for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, ...

Former IGN PC editor-in chief Dan Adams loved Massive Entertainment's World in Conflict so much that it drove him insane. A few short months after he reviewed the real-time strategy game (scoring ...

It set off shocks that were felt across the globe. Russians who lived through the ruinous inflation and currency woes of the early post-Soviet years paid a heavy price.