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 ...

Russian soldiers wear the Red Army uniform of World War II and carry Soviet-era military flags with a red star during a parade to mark the Red Army's victory over the Nazis in this May 9, 2000 ...

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 — … ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...