Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin called a return to the Soviet Union unlikely and possible only through "very hard conflicts". "Socialism in full, that’s my own opinion, is unlikely [to ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s heralded an era of environmental recovery from intensive military and industrial expansion. Since then, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution ...

In 1945, Gouzenko received orders to return to the Soviet Union, but disillusioned with his communist homeland and attracted by life in the West, he decided to stay. He plotted his escape for ...

September 14: The Soviet Union sends Zond 5 around the moon and ... They then rendezvous with Michael Collins in the command module for the return to Earth. July 24: Apollo 11 returns to earth ...