Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...
On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers ...
The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or ...
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A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that Washington grew "arrogant and self-confident" after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance. In ...
IT IS not certain whether on the day this article appears in print Bulganin and Khrushchev will be smiling or frowning: whether on that day they will be flattering President Eisenhower for his ...
Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...
A bust of Kunayev in a park named after the former Kazakh SSR leader in Almaty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vmenkov Subscribe for ads-free reading On the same day last week, authorities in Kazakhstan ...
On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...
Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...