In 1668, Portugal was recognized as an independent nation by Spain. In 1861, the first Medal of Honor was awarded. It went to ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The big trade in 1962 happened on Glienicke ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

John Adams, a graduate student at the University of California, during the preparation of his thesis, asked the ChatGPT neural network to compile a rating of the best states in the history of mankind.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

Baltic countries cut electricity ties with Russia, joining European energy networks, marking geopolitical shift and ...