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RT-23 Molodets: The Soviet Union’s Doomsday Train

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed one of its most secretive and terrifying weapons—the RT-23 Molodets. This intercontinental ballistic missile system was hidden inside specially designed ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Russia reviving Soviet-style coercive psychiatry measures to quash dissent, says UN expert

The UN's special rapporteur on rights in Russia says the Kremlin is resorting to coercive psychiatry measures to suppress anti-war dissidents. Mariana Katzarova said the "punitive" tactics evoked ...
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Why did the Soviet Union suddenly collapse??? (NOBODY PREDICTED IT!!)

This video explains why the Soviet Union—once a nuclear superpower ruling nearly 300 million people—collapsed so suddenly in 1991. It traces the arc from post-WWII dominance and the Cold War standoffs ...
Gizmodo

Ukraine Destroys Legendary Soviet-Era Telescope Once Used to Phone Aliens

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support deep space missions and METI—the attempt to message extraterrestrial ...
CNN

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...
IFLScience

Sergei Krikalev: A Cosmonaut Left Stranded In Space When The Soviet Union Collapsed

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Eurasianet

Russian aid agency seeking to fill USAID gaps in former Soviet Union

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
Los Angeles Times

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee were childhood friends, altar boys raised in the Catholic pews and prosperous suburbs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. By the mid-1970s, Boyce was angry about ...
Yahoo

Failed Soviet spacecraft could crash to Earth this week — here's where it might hit (map)

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A world map showing the predicted range (orange) of where the Kosmos 482 probe could crash to ...
UPI

Spacecraft launched by Soviet Union in 1972 is falling back to Earth

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission launched ...