In 1962, Tereshkova was chosen from over 400 applicants to join the Soviet space programme. She underwent intense training alongside four other women, but ultimately, it was she who was selected to ...

People living in parts of Cancer Alley have the highest risk of cancer from industrial air pollution in the US, more than seven times the national average. New research revealed the toll of air ...

A former Russian diplomat who was charged with conspiring to evade sanctions by working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska ...

If tragedy plus time is comedy, then what does comedy become? Insight? Farce? Revelation? It depends on what and who is writing about it. If the anglophone world’s best historian of the Soviet Union ...

NPR recently reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Futures Lab is experimenting with tools such ...

Being young in the late 1960s and the early 1970s was risky business. Not since the Korean War had the anthem Uncle Sam Wants You been heard in America. We ...

The Genghis Khan National Museum is one of the Mongolian capital’s most popular landmarks and tourist attractions ...

Charlie Gaddy, the longtime WRAL anchor who was often called “the Walter Cronkite of North Carolina,” has died. Gaddy’s death ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

I hope that, despite the devastating drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine and by Ukraine on Russia recently, that negotiations between the two countries will result in a cease fire and then a peace ...