The Cold War secrets behind a butterfly sanctuary
On a windswept hillside in the Mendip Hills, butterflies now drift between wildflowers at Westbury Beacon nature reserve. It ...
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I took a Soviet sleeper train to a little visited country - it was a bargain
The 'Friendship' train links Romania and Moldova, and offers a glimpse into their past, as well as a curious ...
Dry dock, Soviet cinema, meat market — is there anything architect Asif Khan can’t transform?
Known for his revivals of old structures, the Londoner is reimagining two landmarks in the capital — and one in Kazakhstan ...
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Does Trump want Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, what has Kyiv said?
During a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, Trump said the best way for Kyiv to ...
Mint Primer | Sunita Williams’ return: Is space travel so tricky?
In one of the most politicized and closely-followed space missions, Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, spent ...
Women In Space: The Ones Who Paved the Way
With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
How did nine hikers end up dead, burnt and radioactive in the Soviet mountains?
The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...
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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology displays the region's vast diversity
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOSEF STALIN: (Speaking Russian). MAYNES: Sound engineers - critical to the Soviet propaganda machine - were among the new arrivals to Central Asia, where they ...