In the 1970s, the Soviet Union quietly turned a “civilian” space station into a weapon, installing a rapid-fire cannon on Salyut 3 under the secret Almaz program. Decades later, declassified fragments ...

In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human in space, but the Soviet Union buried how close Vostok 1 came to disaster during reentry. From a failed valve to a delayed separation and a ...

Sedanka has only 250 residents, but dozens of its men left for the front. It is wondering whether recognition that the ...

At a moment of mounting threats from China and Russia, this year’s Munich Security Conference delivered an unusually clear takeaway: Republicans arrived with a strategy for rearmament and renewal, ...

What was once a hard-to-find cuisine is now booming across the city, thanks to a new generation of chefs ...

Deep in South Africa’s wine country, near the town of Robertson, past rows of tin shacks and up a gravel road where barefoot ...

Regional colleges that once trained teachers for their own public schools now advertise a mission indistinguishable from every other campus brochure, as do small private liberal arts colleges. In ...

Russia’s delegation to the latest round of US-brokered peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow in Geneva is once again being led by ultraconservative historian and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky – ...

The apricot-hued building with its curved dome proclaims its affiliation with the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox ...

Some 16 or so years ago, I recall hearing what sounded like fireworks from my hotel room in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.

Civil society groups and individuals from around world are working to aid Ukraine by damaging Moscow’s war machine ...