In April 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov expected a swift breakthrough on the road to Berlin. Instead, his opening assault ran ...

During World War II, the Soviet Union faced annihilation by advancing German tank divisions. Lacking enough anti-tank weapons ...

Researchers at Duke University set out to study dogs' intelligence, finding insights into how dogs learn, their individual strengths, and how the species is evolving to become even better companions ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

NBC will air the 24th annual National Dog Show Presented by Purina on Thanksgiving Day Bill McCay/NBC/Getty The National Dog Show is a Thanksgiving Day tradition The canine competition airs after the ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

GENEVA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N.

Russia has revived Intervision, a Soviet-era song contest, with 22 countries participating. Critics argue the event serves as a geopolitical tool, reflecting Moscow's anti-Western outlook and rivaling ...

Ronald Reagan was hysterical. He was many other things too, good and bad, but he was always funny, and he knew the power of a well-timed joke or one-liner. Humor was deeply important to Reagan and he ...

Kristina van Kuyck receives funding from the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Project ID: GOIPG/2023/3686 As I was photographing Soviet-era monuments in the ...