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The idea came from 33-year-old historian, Mikhail Melnichenko, after he wrote a book about Soviet political jokes using diaries as a source. (Photo: AFP)

Russian historians put Stalin-era diaries online through Prozhito

As memories of the Stalin era fade, a project run by young Russian historian is putting Yakovlev journal and more like...

29 March 2017 12:07 PM IST

Dimitrij Ovtcharov

Perfectionist' Ovtcharov carves out niche in TT world

The sport runs in his genes as he was born to Mikhail, who won the national championship in the erstwhile Soviet Union...

19 March 2017 6:25 AM IST

The use of mathematics in daily life has come in an unexpected way, so much so that even the creators of a mathematical result are taken by surprise.

Wonderful world of mathematics

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, the Sputnik, which marked the advent of space technology.

28 Jan 2017 1:21 AM IST

Former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto in Helsinki. Finlands last Cold War president Koivisto who led the Nordic nation out of the shadow of its huge neighbor, the Soviet Union, into the European Union, died. (Photo: AP)

Finland's former leftist President Mauno Koivisto dies at 93

Mauno Koivisto, born in 1923 to a ship's carpenter became the first leftist and ninth president of Finland in 1982.

13 May 2017 1:28 PM IST

Probably the most damning part of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose mystery relates to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastris surprising and mysterious death in Tashkent.

British tortured Netaji to death during interrogation, claims new book

The writer asserts that he has 'irrefutable evidence' to prove that Netaji did not die in the plane crash in Taipei on...

6 Jan 2017 8:18 PM IST

He died when his F-104 Starfighter crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Photo: AP)

First black astronaut honored on 50th anniversary of death

He had a great future ahead of him if he had not been lost 50 years ago.

10 Dec 2017 5:50 PM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

From 1917 to 1991... End of a revolution!

Gorbachev had been aware of its capacity to do mischief, and had made it harder to obtain.

22 Dec 2016 3:28 AM IST