Once a global superpower rivaling the United States, the Soviet Union crumbled in just 70 years. Economic failure, political unrest, and a people desperate for change brought it down. 65-year-old ...

Ne’eman is an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. When it comes to developmental disability, the Kennedy legacy is as storied as ...

Explore the turbulent history of the DC-10, an aircraft that began as a symbol of modern air travel but quickly gained a reputation for danger after a series of tragic incidents. From its innovative ...

Russian police are investigating the death of the latest prominent figure to fall to his death from a window. The secretive head of Pravda publishing house, Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, plunged 70ft from ...

Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, who headed the secretive Pravda publishing house fell at least 70ft to his death on Sunday. Mr Leontyev was the head of Soviet paper Pravda, which translates to Truth, the ...

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The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun a ...

Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three decades ago. A polar bear reacts at the abandoned Soviet-era research station ...

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