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Seeing red: Deepanjana Pal writes on the Soviet-era space-race show Star City

There is espionage, star-gazing, an autocratic government, quiet rebellion – and a host of truly incredible performances.

Updated 2 days ago

‘Miracle: The Boys of ’80’ Review: A Cold-War Victory on Ice

The winning American team.

Updated 184 days ago

HT Archive: USSR disbands, 11 republics forge a new world order

Signature of the Treaty Creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (Getty Images)

Published 225 days ago

Khrushchev era lessons on ceasing nuclear tests

At a time when both the US and Russia are speaking openly of giving up on all arms control and on CTBT-governed codes on nuclear testing, there can be no greater crown on President Putin’s visit than an announcement from Indian soil by the visiting dignitary that Russia will stay its option of resuming nuclear tests. (AP)

Updated 240 days ago

‘Can’t be intercepted’: Putin claims successful test of nuclear-powered Poseidon

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds an icon of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky during a visit at a military hospital in Moscow on October 29, 2025. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofiev / POOL / AFP)

Published 276 days ago

Georgia’s balancing act in Russia’s neighbourhood

The IMF pegged Georgia’s economic growth for the year 2025-26 at 6% — far less than the previous year. (Shutterstock)

Published 328 days ago

Bidding goodbye to the last of the MiG-21s

In the 1990s, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, the MiG-21 faced a crisis. The drying up of the supply chain, including spare parts, meant that the plane became a risky entity. (PTI)

Published 341 days ago

‘Ship of shame’: Russia’s Soviet-era aircraft carrier may soon be scrapped

A photo taken from a Norwegian surveillance aircraft shows Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in international waters off the coast of Northern Norway.

Updated 372 days ago

Meet Leo Radvinsky: OnlyFans founder who built a billion-dollar adult empire

OnlyFans has successfully reshaped the landscape of online pornography, shifting it from traditional ad-supported adult content to a subscription-based model.

Updated 381 days ago

Fear of a Soviet-style collapse keeps Xi Jinping up at night

Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a toast during the National Day reception on the eve of the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China September 30, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Published 666 days ago

The choice before the world: Development or expansionism

United Nations

Published 699 days ago

Why Russia has put Estonia PM, Baltic politicians on wanted list

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Published 900 days ago

US to launch next Moon mission on Valentine's Day

HT Image

Updated 906 days ago

Japan aims for the world's first ‘pinpoint landing’ on moon today

JAXA spacecraft to attempt landing on Friday.

Published 926 days ago

HT This Day: January 9, 1973 -- Another Luna sent moonward

HT This Day: January 9, 1973 -- Another Luna sent moonward. (HT)

Updated 937 days ago

Roshan Kishore picks his favourite reads of 2023

The dialectics of political economy (University of Chicago Press)

Updated 947 days ago

View: Why does ‘turning the other cheek’ not make strategic sense?

File photo of Prime MInister Narendra Modi with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval.

Published 950 days ago

India must prepare for a conflict over Taiwan

Flags of India and Taiwan

Published 1094 days ago

Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel

Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. (ismailyildiz/Shutterstock)

Updated 1101 days ago

Writers have grappled with Vladimir Putin for two decades

Vladimir Putin gave notice of who he was, and what he was capable of, in “First Person”, a transcript of interviews published in 2000, at the start of his overlong rule.

Published 1134 days ago

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on Pasmanda identity, another on the USSR, and one on Indian food today. (HT Team)

Updated 1199 days ago

Separated by a wall, raised solely on basis of religion

The ghost of the shadow war Pakistan embraced has now engulfed it. The dream of Quaid-I-Azam MA Jinnah is being destroyed (HT ARCHIVE)

Updated 1211 days ago

'Did you get your Pizza Hut?' CPM unit lashes out at Gorbachev after his death

Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut television commercial.

Updated 1430 days ago

Shashi Tharoor recalls his meetings with Gorbachev: ‘My last conversation…'

Shashi Tharoor said he had the privilege of meeting Gorbachev twice, both times in Italy at small conferences.

Published 1432 days ago

Impossible to isolate vast country as Russia: Putin warns amid West's sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko and director general of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin visit the construction site of the Amur launch complex for Angara rockets at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Region, Russia April 12, 2022. (Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS)

Updated 1573 days ago

‘Kyiv not Kiev’: Zelenskyy plea on ‘outdated Soviet spellings’ of Ukraine cities

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Published 1584 days ago

'Can't get away with making threats': Putin likens US behaviour to Soviet Union

Russian President Vladimir Putin said US' behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.

Published 1884 days ago

George Shultz, who led US Cold-War diplomacy, dies

FILE - In this May 7, 2007 file photo, former Secretary of State George Schultz arrives to watch Queen Elizabeth II take part in arrival ceremonies on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Shultz, former President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. He was 100. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Updated 2001 days ago

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