Soviet and American pilots flew the Alaska-Siberia Air Route to deliver combat planes halfway around the world ...

Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov completed this ambitious design in just a few months, with construction taking place in ...

In the summer of World War II, Japan and the Soviet Union maintained an uneasy neutrality, bound by a 1941 pact that allowed ...

Troops from the Soviet Union, along with other members of the Warsaw Pact, invaded Czechoslovakia on 1968. This came as a ...

The first documented PNE event for extinguishing gas wells was the Urtabulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan. In 1963, at a ...

On Aug. 19, 2003, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations' representative to Iraq, was killed in a car-bomb attack on U.N.

Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s ...