Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar traces the origins of these conflicts to the end of the ...

But as Mr Morrison shows in his technicolour chronicle of the city, beneath the petro-funded sheen, Moscow is a domain of ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

The planetary radar, built in 1960 in Crimea, from which the Morse signal ‘MIR, Lenin, USSR’ was sent in November 1962. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Archive As humans began to explore outer ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable. The Battle of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. ‘A second chance’: Kansas City officers rescue mother dog, ...

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

American P-38 and Soviet Yak-9 planes in flight during World War II. The planes engaged each other in combat once over Nis during the war. (Wikimedia Commons) By November 1944, Nazi Germany was ...