The history of what we now think of as Russia started in Kyiv more than 1,000 years ago when Viking warrior-merchants came down from the north and founded Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state ...

Russia has a habit of falling victim to economic sanctions for behaviour deemed to be hostile to the rest of the world. In 1948 the allied powers clamped a broad range of restrictions on doing ...

Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures. The crew of Soyuz 10 ...