Victory Day is Russia’s largest secular holiday. It regularly features a parade in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II.

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Nostalgia for a bygone gender regime is more than a weird social media trend. It reflects larger system pressures — on elites facing technological disruption that might generate social unrest, and on ...

“Or, at least, it would have been until recently.” Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union, Mr. Kanevsky, now 74, was trained as an architect. He came to the United ...