Built to patrol the vast coastlines of the Soviet Union during World War II, the Beriev Be-4 was a small but vital flying ...

After months of meticulous planning, the moment of reckoning was approaching quickly, and Nick Polano was getting nervous. Worried about being recognized by the wrong people — and the Portland, Ore., ...

In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history, but the return to Earth was far more chaotic than the Soviet Union ever admitted. This is the real story of Vostok 1’s reentry failures, the off-course ...

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the ...

The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled up to the decaying docks of Klaipėda, a Lithuanian port city on the frigid ...

Thank goodness this was not the real thing. It was the kind of tool famously used to kill Bulgarian dissident author Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978, roughly a decade after he defected to the ...

Aldrich Ames, one of the CIA’s most notorious turncoats, died in federal prison Monday at 84. Ames had been serving life without parole since 1994, when he was convicted of espionage for selling ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

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