Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said it detected Russian military aircraft off the coast of Alaska on Sunday, marking the fourth time since 9/11 amid heightened tensions ...

Please, they’d quietly pleaded with their Slovenian escorts, don’t address us by our real names. They hadn’t yet told their son and daughter, touring the cockpit, that they were Russian.

Where did the money go? The right-wing social media stars who were allegedly paid millions of dollars in a nefarious Russian influence operation to shape public opinion around the 2024 US ...

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More than 600,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the war began in 2022. By Eric Schmitt The authorities are resorting to a politically unpopular move as they scramble to raise ...

Despite each side hoping for a breakthrough, the war is set to “grind on” in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces this week took the strategic town of Vuhledar, and in Russia’s Kursk region ...

A Russian strike on an apartment block in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has killed one person and injured at least 40, with fears others are trapped under the rubble, Ukrainian ...

Even at the height of the East-West Cold War, the old Soviet Union did not share its nuclear weapons technology. While the US provided Britain with the Polaris system (and more recently Trident ...

Vladimir Putin is all too aware that economic pressure brought down the Soviet Union as he is forced to hike defence spending and slash social benefits to fund his war in Ukraine, according to Western ...