The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

The in-depth story of the 1971 Aralsk-7 Smallpox Incident in the Soviet Union. The Aralsk-7 facility ... This disaster documentary is inspired by the fantastic "Fascinating Horror".

A German city before World War Two and geographically disconnected from the rest of Russia, Kaliningrad remains a mystery to many mainland Russians and their European neighbours. How does a 50 ...

Mr Putin's remarks come from a documentary film called Russia, Latest History, aired on Sunday. "It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union," he said ...

Soviet wartime cameramen accompanied the fighting troops of the Red Army on foot aboard their tanks and in their aircraft to film this epochal documentary of the Battle of Moscow that halted the ...