Germany holds the world's second-largest gold reserves, 1,236 metric tons, 37 percent of which worth $123 billion are kept at ...

While visiting the TASS photo exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the top Russian diplomat drew attention to the West’s attempts to rewrite ...

This project begins a series of the main events timed to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet nation’s Great Victory in the ...

There have been many terrible wars in the history of the world in which millions of people lost their lives. But there was a war that was the most terrible and horrific war of human civilization. More ...

Those who lived through the Cold War era will remember the horrors of the time: Wearing identification tags to school, practicing duck-and-cover drills and facing the constant threat of nuclear war.

The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

The people “will understand” its significance if the city of Volgograd reverts to its WWII-era name, Gennady Zyuganov has ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

Every week, we had lessons - Russian propaganda - about the great achievements of the Soviet Union - and how miserable life in the West and the USA was. ''Young students - I was around 15 at the ...

Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.