The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Russian lunar lander. Soviet scientists were well ahead of their American counterparts in moon exploration before President John F. Kennedy pronounced the U.S. would put a... 

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: America is becoming the Soviet Union! Is he right?  Read More »

Moscow: In one of the biggest show of military might since the collapse of USSR, Russia mobilised 20,000 troops and state-of-the-art weapons in a drill, with President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday asserting that his country is a “great” naval power capable of defending its interests. Medvedev watched the impressive drills of the Russian Navy as part of the strategic Vostok-2010 (Orient-2010)... 

Some Russians hold fond memories of the late dictator. Tomorrow, in their annual Victory Day observances, citizens of the former Soviet Union mark the 65th anniversary of the end of their four-year war with Nazi Germany and its allies. A recent Russian source calculates that the loss of lives on the Soviet side was more than 35 million. According to Soviet and today’s Russian leaders, the Soviet... 

The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of the emergent customs union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of... 

The US Supreme Court judges who ruled out that You Have No Rights! Do you believe that the government of the United States considers itself obliged by law to respect anyone’s rights? You are wrong. Read Chris Floyd’s article on a recent Supreme Court decision to let a lower court’s ruling stand, and weep your bitterest tears. If you count yourself among those who believe that this country stands... 

People who use it in public are prosecuted (arrested and fined) almost daily. Belarus’s Moscow-sponsored government of Lukashenko wants to create some sort of Soviet-style paradise, so just like during the Soviet times they make illegal everything they just don’t like. In 1991 after the collapse of the USSR, Belarus’s national flag became a state symbol. However, in 1994 the Communists... 

Yes, Belarus is still the whitest country in Europe, but the situation could change in no time if the Moscow-sponsored Soviet-style government of Belarus will remain in power for the next 5 – 10 years. Because of the policies of president Lukashenko Belarus virtually is a mini-USSR. Lukashenko and Co. even resurrected the Leninist Communist Youth organization (KOMSOMOL) – Belarusian Republican... 

Bukovsky and Belien Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state. Mr Bukovsky paid a visit to the European Parliament... 

A Jewish group in Ukraine is objecting to a criminal case brought over the “Great Famine” committed in the 1930s. The nation’s security service is pressing the case against a list of former Soviet officials accused of committing the Holodomor, which caused the deaths of millions in Ukraine in 1932-33. Most of the names on the list were Jewish. Ukrainian lawmaker Aleksandr Feldman,...