All news on the topic: Soviet Union

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin’s Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian cyber-criminals.

Important Stories narrates the tale of Lana Pozhidaeva — an MGIMO graduate, model, and daughter of career intelligence officers — who was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s network for many years and recruited women for him from the former Soviet Union.

The birthplace of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has become a topic of media speculation, driven by his refusal to answer the question.

On January 16, the Russian Forbes, owned by the Kremlin oligarch Magomed Musayev, whose biography and activities are closely intertwined with the KGB and FSB (which are essentially the same thing), published an article by Ilya Zhegulev...

A Soviet satellite once bound for Venus has crashed landed back on Earth after more than half a century in space.

Kosmos 482, with a weight of 500kg, was intended to land on Venus in the 1970s, but it failed to leave orbit due to a rocket malfunction.

A theft occurred over the weekend, but the tank’s disappearance was only noticed three days later by the owner.

Vladimir Putin asserted that he was safeguarding Russian speakers in Crimea in 2014 and is thought to be prepared to present a similar argument to invade neighboring countries with significant Russian-speaking populations.

The UK had private fears about the threat from Russia as Ukraine gave up its inherited nuclear weapons, newly released documents show.

Valery Falkov, Russia’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, reported to the president on the progress of the federal project “Advanced Engineering Schools,” aimed at retraining individuals to meet the demands of the modern economy.