Airways6d
Tupolev Tu-154: The Legendary Soviet Airliner
Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.
The Economist3d
Russia’s army is being subordinated to its security services
When Ukraine instead fought Russia to a standstill, reports circulated that Mr Beseda had been arrested. Yet on March 24th ...
The New York Times3d
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
Under the technate, humans would no longer have names; they would have numbers. One technocrat went by 1x1809x56. (Mr. Musk has a son named X Æ A-12.) Mr. Haldeman, who had lost his Saskatchewan ...
BelTA1d
‘50 officers were selected’. This Belarusian drove a tank through Red Square in 1945 Parade
The first Victory Parade in Moscow featured more than 1,800 units of military hardware. In the morning of 24 June 1945, ...
PC Gamer6d
'The original Tetris was a survival game': The man who prised Tetris out of the Soviet system recalls how different it once was
The Elektronica 60 was a Soviet computer and kind of a bootleg PDP-11 that was widely used from the late 1970s into the '90s and even beyond. It's the hardware that Pajitnov originally programmed ...