This is what communism looked like in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan when they were Soviet republics.

In the fall of 2022, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, plans to send Anna Kikina, Russia’s only current female cosmonaut, to the International Space Station (ISS). We give the lowdown on who she is and how she passed the selection process.

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers a distinctive monument in Russia’s historic heartland.

Russia has seen plenty of meteoroids in its lifetime, but (thankfully) only a small number of celestial bodies actually landed anywhere near populated areas.

Alexander Baranov called himself the “Pizarro of Russia,” but was he just as cruel and as famous as the Spanish conquistador?