Image via Wikipedia Tri-City Herald In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judic...

Dr. Piatetski-Shapiro’s outstanding mathematical contributions came despite hardships in the Soviet Union and later the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease....

And let me get this out of the way: we didn't talk about Borat. I didn't ask him if anyone had ever jokingly threatened to throw the Jew down the well. He didn't show me a picture of his pet chicken. To have gone into any of this, even as a joke would have been incredibly disrespectful, not to menti...

"This is a regular Russian school biology textbook owned by some Russian school. He has modified some illustrations so now it’s hard to say sometimes what was there originally and what has appeared as a result of his imagination."...

Director : Zack Snyder Release Date : 6 March 2009 (USA) Genre : Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast : , Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake / The Comedian, Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II, Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk ...

The Stoical post-Soviet smartass Dmitri Orlov, from "Reinventing Collapse": Most Americans have heard of communism, and automatically believe that it is an apt description of the Soviet system, even though there was nothing particularly communal about a welfare state and......

"I am Russian so, obviously, I like this film. It has typical Russian humor, it is a farce, so do not look for higher meanings in the jokes, it makes fun of the social standards of the Soviet regime as well as the people who served it so well. It features some of the best Russian actors that we...

We cover a lot of cool NASA space shuttle stuff here at Gizmodo, but we'd be remiss if we didn't mention an important milestone for that other vital spacecraft, out of Russia, the Soyuz. That......

The Early Days of a Better Nation Blogged with the Flock Browser Robert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of....

Click on the title to watch the video on PBS. KIM LAWTON: Rabbi Shea Harlig is on a mission to get Jews to embrace a more traditional practice of their faith. As an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he works nearly nonstop. He leads prayer services and Torah studies. DINA HARLIG (Chabad of ...