FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

The strike set fire to the shelter that contains radiation from the site of the largest nuclear disaster in history, ...

The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had once again found traces of tear gas on the frontline with Russia ...

The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...

The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...

The T-90M tanks, praised by Vladimir Putin as the best machines in the world, are essentially "powdered" T-72s, which act as ...

This modification has improved technical and tactical characteristics, including longer distance and higher altitude ...

The T-34 played a pivotal role in winning the Second World War. But eighty years later, the tank is a museum piece.

With its focus on war with its neighbor, Russia has taken its eyes off the ball elsewhere. As a result, its position is much ...