TASS/. The Russian armed forces are not planning to scrap their traditional winter hat with ear flaps, known as ushanka, a Russian defense ministry official has told TASS, commenting on rumors of ...

one hat of this type became famous above all others – the Russian ushanka. Ushankas were adopted by the Soviet military, as ...

Recently, a new Russian series titled Goodbye hit the screens, promising an ironic take on the cultural and political ...

And by the store exits there is usually a table covered with Soviet military paraphernalia and souvenirs with Lenin's image, badges, old ruble banknotes and ushanka fur hats. Some of those ...

Critics said his hat was digitally altered and it was all designed to make him look like a "Soviet stooge". But Mr Corbyn's attire was "not in any way altered or 'Photoshopped' to appear 'more ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

On August 20, 2020, during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow, the Russian opposition leader and anticorruption campaigner Alexei Navalny thought he was dying–he ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

Students tell us what they have learned from the platonic, familial and romantic relationships in their lives. By The Learning Network How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do ...

By Marc Santora Western officials are investigating whether devices planted at shipping hubs in Europe may have been a test run by Russian operatives for placing them on planes bound for the U.S ...