Why did he have to carry a gun aboard his craft? Did he meet God in space? And why did he lie to mighty Khruschev?

The USSR’s main achievement of the 1960s was for sure sending a first man into space. And the citizens were enormously proud of it (not without the help of a bit of propaganda).

Russian military virologists have been assisting Italy in battling the coronavirus outbreak in Bergamo since April 8. They work out of a newly built field hospital for COVID-19 patients. We took a take closer look at the rapidly-constructed Russian-Italian project.

Today, when doctors are saving thousands of people, sometimes even at the risk of their own lives, we look back at some heroic pages in Russia’s medical history.