And yet, on Oct. 18, 1971, with angry protesters all around, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau still decided it would be a good idea to stroll on Parliament Hill with a man thousands of people wanted to ...

A physician's hypothesis drew the attention of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who was interested in increasing life expectancy ...

Although the US eventually won the Cold War, it suffered humiliating defeats in the process. Among them was China's shootdown ...

The most successful Soviet fighter pilots of that conflict had no previous serious combat experience. They did not fight ...

Operation Argus was conceived following the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1. It demonstrated the USSR’s ability ...

Hezbollah now appears to be using converted Soviet-era jet-powered reconnaissance drones as cruise missiles. The Israeli ...

The Soviet poet loved animals and there are many other photos of him with cats. In this particular photo, Mayakovsky is ...

The term referred to a thawing trend in the three-decade Cold War, and visiting Soviet officials were presenting an amicable ...

The frigate battalion fought around Kharkiv in northern Ukraine before shifting to the Pokrovsk axis in the east. Moklasen ...

When it was released in 1994, the British historian Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes was a global bestseller, translated into many languages. It was a sensation in Brazil, for example, where ...

Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted on Sept. 19 to rename 327 settlements that had names related to the Russian ...

In a desperate bid for nuclear supremacy, the Soviet Union unintentionally created the most dangerous place on Earth.