Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the fall of Soviet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive ...

The MiG-23 was the Soviet Union’s ambitious answer to the next generation of Western fighter jets, a plane designed to rival the F-4 Phantom II, F-105 Thunderchief, and F-111 Aardvark. On paper, it ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I. By The New York Times Slovakia, which was left reeling on Wednesday ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the ...