A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

Brace yourself for an electrifying journey filled with unusual experiences and daring inventions! On this channel, we explore the limits of electricity, turning bold ideas into reality. You'll witness ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

An exact reproduction of a Soviet-era mosaic destroyed during Russia’s 2022 siege of Mariupol was unveiled in Kyiv’s Maidan ...

Acclaimed Russian ballet choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich, received top Soviet and Russian honours. Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as ...

It came under the city's management in 2001. Estonia was twice occupied by the Soviet Union from 1940-1941 and 1945-1991. The Soviet emblem during removal work at the Russian Cultural Center in ...

However, the hammer and sickle emblems in particular have been a target for activists in the past. The memorial, which is registered as a national cultural monument, has sparked controversy given its ...

Following the escalation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kyiv has moved to obliterate traces of the country’s Soviet past. In August 2023, the Soviet coat of arms on the shield of the Mother ...

The Soviet Union bought Pyramiden in 1927 from the Swedes. Although not stated publicly, Kremlin’s main idea with the settlement was not primarily to get coal.

Return of the Soviet Union to Svalbard stands out in Barentsburg as well. The Russian settlement where coal mining still happens this spring got a new Soviet flag in the port. Also this at top of the ...

The region broke away from then-Soviet Moldova, where the Romanian language dominates, in 1990. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, pro-Russian separatists fought a brief war with ...