Topic: Vladimir Vysotsky

MOSCOW, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- More than 20 people were killed Saturday during the sea trial of a Russian nuclear submarine, officials said.

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too.

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MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Josef Stalin and Czar Nicholas II are running neck-and-neck in an online Russian poll to determine the country's most significant historical figure.

MOSCOW, April 4 (UPI) -- Russia plans to have a fleet of five or six aircraft carrier joint task groups by 2060, the commander of its navy said Friday.