Before Huurre's decision to leave Finland in the early 1930s for the Soviet Union, she led a "perfectly normal life", says Hyrske. "In the book, she tries to explain it to herself and to the ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

The Soviet Union’s reliance on stray dogs was practical ... Hence, they only provided Laika with a week’s worth of food and life-support technology, according to reports from NASA.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union appeared to be at the height of its ... "seems desirable to those who worry about property and hold life cheap," warned science-fiction author Isaac Asimov).

Former Representative Liz Cheney responded sharply to President-elect Donald Trump's criticism after she and Representative Bennie Thompson received the Presidential Citizens Medal. Trump called ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K ...

Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union in 1988. At that time, the Communist Party was in the ...