Soviet spacecraft crash lands on earth after a journey of half a century
- 11-May-2025
A Soviet-era spacecraft called Cosmos 482, which was launched in 1972 to land on Venus, has gone viral after finally returning to Earth following more than 50 years in orbit. The viral moment occurred early Saturday morning when the craft, which never made it to Venus, crash-landed in the Indian Ocean, west of Jakarta, Indonesia. […]
‘Punch to the face’: Czechs mark half-century since Soviet invasion
- 21-Aug-2018
Fifty years ago Soviet tanks rolled into Prague to crush the Czechoslovak Communist government’s democratic reforms, ushering in a bloody occupation whose lessons many Czechs fear have been forgotten.
Russian film set in Soviet era highlights continuing tensions: director
- 18-Feb-2018
BERLIN: Russia always seems to be on the brink of war and conditions there now are much like they were in the 1970s, when people worried that an international conflict would break out and largely sided with the government, the director of a new movie set in that era has said. Current relations between Russia […]
One of first Soviet cosmonauts Gorbatko dies
- 17-May-2017
MOSCOW: Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko, a colleague of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, died on Wednesday at the age of 82, Russia’s space agency said. Gorbatko was among the eight young pilots chosen in 1960 from 3,000 candidates in the Soviet manned flight programme to train for the country’s first space mission. Born […]