“Or, at least, it would have been until recently.” Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union, Mr. Kanevsky, now 74, was trained as an architect. He came to the United ...

What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft–their imprisonment–in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks ...

Instead, they had dumped him at the so-called Russia Squad in L.A., a counterespionage unit meant to combat Soviet spying. He did not speak Russian. It was 1984, the year Moscow boycotted the L.A ...

It's about a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine that could run silently through the use of its "caterpillar drive" propulsion system, making it significantly difficult to track. As fun as the film ...

An initiative group of Russians in Washington plans to hold a march of the Immortal Regiment with Soviet symbols, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called Great Patriotic War [as ...

The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. The government says the anthem fails to ...

Grade One to Seven Westgold Primary School learners spoke to the Randfontein Herald about what Easter means to them and why it is their favourite holiday. • Also read: Help the SPCA ‘hop ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

India's space journey began on April 19, 1975, with the launch of Aryabhata from the Soviet Union. Built by Indian scientists in 30 months, it marked India's entry into the global space community.

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, becoming the first woman in space. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, who worked in ...