The National Interest1d
MiG-105 Spiral: The Little-Known Soviet Starfighter
The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...
ERR News4d
Eesti Energia looking into wood use in oil shale power plants
Enefit Power is exploring the possibility of burning wood pellets instead of oil shale in the blocks of the Eesti Power Plant ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
PBS15d
A historical timeline of post-independence Ukraine
Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine votes for independence in a referendum, with 92 percent of Ukrainians supporting independence, and elects Leonid Kravchuk as president.
Interesting Engineering16d
The Militarization of Space: What Would a “Space Force” Look Like?
In recent years, there has been a significant amount of attention dedicated to the idea of creating a military force specifically for space. This is in part related to recent comments made by the ...
Greek Reporter18d
Truman Doctrine: How America Helped Greece Avoid Falling into Soviet Orbit
Public Domain The 1947 Truman Doctrine was crucial for Greece to be able to avoid falling into the sphere of Soviet influence while the country was ravaged by the Civil War (1946-1949). With the ...
Tuko20d
Agent Krasnov: Did Soviet Russia Recruit Donald Trump as A KGB Spy
Nairobi - A viral rumour has taken social media by storm, alleging US president Donald Trump was recruited as a Soviet intelligence asset in the late 1980s and given the codename Krasnov. Donald Trump ...
The Irish Times25d
Real question is why Trump wants to help Putin reverse the Soviet Union’s collapse
In his 2017 book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, British journalist Luke Harding recounted how Trump’s friendship with the Soviet diplomat ...
Forbes26d
From Berlin With Love: Ukraine Is About To Fire Germany’s Best Cruise Missiles From Its Old Soviet Bombers
The Ukrainian air force would likely hang the Tauruses under the swinging wings of ex-Soviet Sukhoi Su-24 bombers that the British and French have already modified to carry Storm Shadows and SCALP ...
CBS News28d
Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.
CNN28d
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.