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Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge ...
We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...
The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign policy, but he’s taking things ...
Russia will hold its “Intervision” music competition in September, organisers announced on Wednesday, after authorities ...
Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...
The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.
China is not the new Soviet Union. And this is not 1955. It is 2025. And the future will not follow the path of the past.
In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the Institute for Systemic and ...
MOSCOW, May 1, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russia will hold its "Intervision" music competition in September, organisers announced on ...
NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May Day. Since ...