From the upper floors of Vienna’s former imperial riding school, a cluster of satellite dishes can be made out behind the golden domes of the Russian Orthodox cathedral. All embassies need to ...

His rival within Russian communism was Josef Stalin; the two leaders had a visceral dislike for one another. When Stalin consolidated his power, Trotsky was obliged to flee, eventually settling in ...

A new Venus project would extend a series of successful landing missions in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by previous Venera spacecraft operated by the former Soviet Union, which rem ...

U.S. academic Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of a ​former Soviet leader, was designated by Russia on Friday as a "foreign agent" - a term ‌with connotations of spying that Moscow applies to ...

In October 1960 a catastrophic explosion at the Baikonur Cosmodrome killed more than a hundred engineers and military personnel during preparations for a new Soviet missile. The tragedy, later known ...

If you were rummaging in Brighton's antiques district in the late 1960s, you would have spotted a shop with the owner's aristocratic-sounding name proudly over the door: 'Edith Tudor Hart'.