Eric Lusito crossed the former Soviet Union to explore vast scientific sites, some of which have been deserted for years, for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the fall of Soviet ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I. By The New York Times Slovakia, which was left reeling on Wednesday ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.

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