The banner, a replica of the Soviet flag raised by three Red Army soldiers on the Reichstag building in Berlin, on April 30, 1945, will be sent to the International Space Station on board the ...

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Sasha survived the Nineties too. In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin and the Russian tricolor went up, ushering in the decade that hangs ...

Out of the mist lumbered two sharp-prowed, 6,500-ton icebreakers wearing huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names”North-wind” and “Westwind” on their bows. Six years ...