Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday that the USSR is conducting research on its own version of a ”Star Wars” missile defense, and he appealed to President Reagan to abandon his ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, child star of Soviet-era film, dies at 91. The son of an African American father and a Russian mother, he starred at age 3 in a propaganda film mythologizing Soviet ...

Mikhail Gorbachev (left, signing an arms treaty with Ronald Reagan in 1987) publicly opposed space weapons, even as the Soviet Union’s prototype laser satellite (painted black) sat on the launch ...

Vandals in Russia defaced a Soviet star, a highly revered symbol, painting it to look like Patrick, the cartoon starfish from the kids show “SpongeBob SquarePants.” ...

Once the most recognized icons of the Soviet Union after the hammer and sickle, the five-point star never vanished but was phased out after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Putin’s plan — … ...

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin brought back the Soviet-era red star Tuesday as the Russian military's emblem, the latest in a series of restored communist symbols that play to nostalgia but ...

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on old Soviet Era aircraft still in use today. Voice, text and video editing belong to The Daily Aviation, any use of these content without ...

By Brad Lendon, CNN Royce Williams was a real-life “Top Gun” 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born. On a cold November day in 1952, Williams shot down four Soviet fighter jets — and ...

Artists in the Soviet Union operated in a strange, wary time after the death of dictator Josef Stalin in 1953. Personal expression was forbidden and they were under nearly constant surveillance by ...