(The most recent moon effort had been Luna 24, launched by the Soviet Union in 1976.) Roscosmos "also faced corruption scandals, the loss of satellites and other spacecraft, as well as a lack of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked the head of the Roscosmos space agency on Thursday, the Kremlin said, citing the need to "develop" the corporation after suffering years of humiliating setbacks ...

Back in the USSR: Putin Revives Soviet-Era 'Eurovision' With New Allies By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern Western ...

He has spent over 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks fluent Russian. Europecategory Sweden mourns victims of mass shooting and searches for answers 6:04 PM UTC · Updated ago ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics' final ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe ...

After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev was touting the principle of “glasnost,” or openness, in the lead-up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the rights-based dissidents were demanding openness ...