The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

The 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been awarded an honorary title.

Roland Lajoie, Army general who helped manage Cold War tensions, dies at 87 An expert on the Soviet military, he implemented a historic program to destroy thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons after ...

Designed at the height of the Cold War, the Seawolf-class submarines represent one of the most advanced and secretive programs in U.S. Navy history.

Lev Dovator, the Soviet-Jewish general who led the Cossack attack on the Nazis in the Rostov district which broke the German offensive and initiated the Nazi retreat along the entire Soviet front ...

Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov couldn't get Coca-Cola behind the Iron Curtain, so he asked the US to come up with an alternative solution: "white Coke." ...

Lieutenant General David Dragunsky, a Jewish Army officer who is one of the most decorated Soviet heroes of World War II, declared here that “vestiges of anti-Semitism still exist in the Soviet ...

In 1945, Soviet General Sergei Shtemenko told Sergo Beria, whose father had been a feared Soviet secret police chief during the Stalin era, “It was expected that the Americans would abandon a Europe ...

Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb- this feature details Russian government officials.

During a storied military career, Roland Lajoie rose to major general, became one of the Army’s leading experts on the Soviet military, and implemented a historic program to destroy thousands of ...