For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

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The Battle of Kursk marked Germany’s final attempt to regain control of the Eastern Front. It was a clash defined not just by ...

What should have been a brief trip 74 years ago this month turned into a disaster-movie-scale nightmare. Think of it as “The ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

A video showing women queuing up outside a Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation (KSIC) showroom from as early as 4 AM has ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Recently, Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away at age 80. His passing was duly eulogized by ...

One would think that the story has been told so often; what else is there to tell? Well, a new Netflix documentary entitled ...

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

Trump has claimed that America “needs” Greenland “for defense.” But what exactly the White House stands to gain from ...

Strange tales retold again and again often turn out to be based on myth. Not so for the tale of Wojtek (pronounced Voy-tek), ...