In 1962, Tereshkova was chosen from over 400 applicants to join the Soviet space programme. She underwent intense training alongside four other women, but ultimately, it was she who was selected to ...

If tragedy plus time is comedy, then what does comedy become? Insight? Farce? Revelation? It depends on what and who is writing about it. If the anglophone world’s best historian of the Soviet Union ...

Being young in the late 1960s and the early 1970s was risky business. Not since the Korean War had the anthem Uncle Sam Wants You been heard in America. We ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

I hope that, despite the devastating drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine and by Ukraine on Russia recently, that negotiations between the two countries will result in a cease fire and then a peace ...

Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...

Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University ...

Ever since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has been treated as a “pariah state” ...

Mark Rutte’s demands for a huge increase in defence spending are a necessary evil, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley ...

Overall, the war has solidified changes to life in Crimea that began with the annexation, isolating the peninsula as a scenic ...

The loss of any Tu-95s will be felt by Russia’s air force considering its already small fleet. Analysts continue to pour over ...