The story that caught my attention was that the dolls were not made by a toy company, but were produced by a Soviet gunpowder manufacturer. The Tambov Gunpowder Plant was producing more gunpowder than ...

Jonathan Miles, author of the novels “Dear American Airlines” and “Want Not,” has just published “Eradication: A Fable.” ...

While surveying a historic home in the small town of Torzhok about 135 miles northwest of Moscow, archaeologists discovered a clay container filled with 409 gold coins buried beneath the structure’s ...

With designs that would become standard, these are the NES Games That Shaped Modern Gaming More Than Players Realized.

When I was a literary youth, I dreamed of going to the Russian Tea Room for a shot of horse­radish vodka. I had to make do with Russian Samovar, the rollicking, poor-writer-friendly joint some blocks ...

There’s a playable, paper-thin Tetris game on the cover. There’s a playable, paper-thin Tetris game on the cover. is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes. By Neil MacFarquhar The Gulag History Museum in Moscow, the last ...

For the first time since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s flag will be represented at a major international sporting event. The International Paralympic Committee announced Tuesday that Russia’s ...

Moscow is calling it “necro-propaganda” but intelligence services and chemical weapons experts from five European countries are united in their verdict: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was ...

Russia’s military has been badly battered by its failure to conquer Ukraine, but Moscow is now rebuilding its war machine for the long haul, according to a new assessment from Estonia’s foreign ...

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged. In China’s case, history is ...

When Rancho Santa Fe native Griffin Edwards was a high schooler, a trip to Russia changed his life. “I did not know anything about Russia. It was so different than what I grew up with,” said Edwards, ...