The New Yorker6d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...
The Economist1d
The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...
Polyphonic on MSN6d
How Folk Music Defeated the Soviet Union
In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon. For decades under Soviet rule, Estonians gathered to sing folk songs that ...
The death of a close friend, colleague and comrade
Because Sergey Rogov was far better known in Russia as a keen strategist and student of the United States and Europe, only a ...
After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot
After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...