Alien Nation: USSR and UFOs
The KGB and the Soviet Defence Ministry had dedicated units collecting and analysing information about paranormal activity. Military experts even claimed to know how to "summon" UFOs and make contact with them
Stalin’s secret kill lists
A disk issued last month by the human rights organization Memorial shows documental archives and records of 44,500 people who were on “Stalin's Shooting Lists"
The day Stalin died
“Our leader, the person everyone loved more than their own mother and father – our God – had died”
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Soviet nuclear weapons
The Indian statesman tried in vain to convince Nikita Khrushchev to commit unilaterally not to use nuclear weapons. Their correspondence remained incomplete
70th anniversary of the greatest battle of World War II
The Soviet Army scored many victories during World War II that were no less brilliant in terms of strategic results and military skill. Why, then, does Stalingrad stand out among them?
Moscow's oldest railway station receives a facelift
Reconstruction of Moscow's Leningradsky Station will be completed in the first half of 2013. Designers hope to make the busy station more serviceable, while preserving the historic integrity of the building
Lenin fans: A tribute of flowers
Right now, an increasing majority of Russians want Lenin’s remains to be given a proper burial
I.K. Gujral’s (Soviet) Russia connection
Russia always remembers with gratitude the great contribution Gujral made to the development of warm relations between India and Russia
Remembering Nehru’s first ever visit to the USSR
The influence of this historic journey could be witnessed in all subsequent activities of India’s first prime minister
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Russia commemorates Stalingrad Battle losses
The Restore the Soldier's Name campaign aims to immortalize 17,000 previosly unknown soldiers and officers who fell during the Stalingrad Battle
A train ride back through time
Ghost train tracks run through the center of Moscow. There are no overhead lights, there are no passengers, and the kind of steam-train whistle one expects in old black-and-white films can hardly ever be heard
Nostalgia for the Brezhnev era
Although Brezhnev’s 18 year rule was a period of stagnation, many look back at those days with positivity
60,000 World War II documents kept in Russian state archives
The archives contain several documents that could throw new light on the atrocities committed by Hitler’s troops during the war
'Yeti Fur' found in Siberian cave
The fur was recovered during a trip to the Azasskaya cave in the Kemerovo region in Siberia
Reassessing the Soviet stand on the Indo-China conflict
Contrary to widespread beliefs the USSR was neutral throughout the Indo-China border conflict, the Soviet position evolved from a position of neutrality to a brief tilt towards China and then switched to open support for India
1924: Glimpses of British India through Nicholas Roerich’s eyes
Before going on his famous Altai-Himalaya expedition, Nicholas Roerich travelled across India and the country’s contrasts and diversity left indelible impressions on his mind
The town where they still love Stalin
Stalin lived the first four years of his life in a modest wooden house in Gori, a small city some 40 miles from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi
Child discovers a mammoth in Taymyr
Yevgeny Salinder, 11, found the remains of a woolly mammoth on Sopochnaya Karga cape in Russia’s northernmost peninsula of Taymyr. It is the best preserved mammoth find in a century
When the Arktika conquered the North Pole
In the summer of 1977, a Soviet icebreaker became the first ship make an expedition to the ‘Cap of the Planet’
Remembering their roots in 1812
Descendents of the heroes of the Battle of Borodino describe what the event meant to their families