The Latest Breaking News from the Soviet Union

Launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon on Friday was conducted without assistance the European Space Agency.

Russia is taking a big gamble as it prepares to launch its first spacecraft to the Moon since 1976 on Friday. After decades of failed space missions, and with the war in Ukraine making it a pariah on the international stage, Russia is hoping to re-emerge as a major player…

India on July 14 launched its third mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, with an aim to soft land on the surface of Earth’s only natural satellite. A successful landing would make India the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the Soviet Union.

A successful landing by the spacecraft would make India the fourth country — after the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China — to achieve the feat.

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.

TALLINN -- Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas continues to emphasize the need to hold the current Russian leadership accountable for the invasion of Ukraine. Her conviction is rooted in her personal experience growing up under the control of the Soviet Union, as the northernmost Baltic state had been in the…

The discovery has been hailed "very rare" and the craft are believed to be some of those sent from the UK to the Soviet Union to help fight Nazi Germany when they invaded in 1941

India considers Russia a time-tested ally from the Cold War era with key cooperation in defense, oil, nuclear energy and space exploration

Whoever destroyed it, the fall of the 67-year-old Kakhovka Dam stands as a symbol of the final death of the Soviet dream of inter-ethnic and constructive co-operation.