In 1987, the audacious flight of a West German teenager, Matthias Rust, exposed critical vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union’s air defenses when he landed a Cessna 172 in Moscow’s Red Square.

About 14,000 troops, over 200 latest and WWII military hardware and 75 aircraft took part in the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square devoted to the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s ...

TASS/. A military parade to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War took place on Moscow’s Red Square on Tuesday.

from Moscow's Red Square parades to communist congresses. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Positive stories dominated Soviet news bulletins. Every year, to images of combine harvesters ...

The Kremlin walls and towers make visitors feel like tiny specks on Red Square ... to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. The centrepiece - a massive square with an obelisk ...

Pyongyang's fleet of combat aircraft were purchased from the Soviet Union and later China. Russian Sukhoi Su-35 and MiG-29 military jets fly over Red Square during the Victory Day parade on May 9 ...