The big fame came to Stierlitz after the Soviet TV screens saw the series 'Seventeen Moments of Spring' (1973) directed by Tatiana Lioznova. It was based on Semyonov's novels. Tatiana Lioznova ...

The chunky 1951 Warszawa M-20 bears the serial number 000001 it had when it left the FSO Passenger Car Factory in Warsaw on Nov. 6 of that year, exactly 73 years ago. It is a relic of the period of ...

Though few recognized it at the time, the papal election of Karol Wojtyla was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Weigel notes that one person who did recognize the potential impact ...

International information agency Russia Today has reported the death of the legendary Soviet political observer, TV host and publicist, Dr. Valentin Zorin MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. International ...

In 1997, he resorted to making a TV ad for Pizza Hut to earn money ... Gorbachev never set out to dismantle the Soviet system. What he wanted to do was improve it. Soon after taking power ...

Kemp Powers is directing and writing Lunik Heist for Searchlight Pictures, which will star Oscar Winner Jared Leto, John ...

A more telling, still timely collection of films came into being during the Cold War, including projects that dealt with a ...

The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union developed in the late 1940s. Yet its age wasn't the main attraction. Russia has, after all, been regularly deploying Cold War ...