Back in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened and caused a lot of environmental disasters and death. But if it had been up to Russia, they would have swept the incident under the rug and ...

Former CIA officer Dan Hoffman compares Russian secrecy surrounding a death by pneumonic plague to the Chernobyl response ...

Thirty-nine years ago, a series of traumatic events in everyday life filled the country with fear. But thanks to the ...

Russia plague outbreak fears are escalating in Siberia following the death of a young scientist, prompting a former CIA ...

Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

Vladimir Putin faces compounding crises as a Siberian plague researcher's death adds to the Ukraine war toll and Russia's ...

April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

Baba Vanga’s foresight is no joke, considering she reportedly knew there would be a resurgence of the Plague decades before Russia was forced to lock down its hospitals.

Why did a Christmas card sent by Sinn Féin in 2004 cause concern? The government files also reveal that a Christmas card sent by Sinn Féin to staff at Coleraine social security office prompted an ...

BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that ...

Sci-fi horror comedy, Behind, features scenes filmed in Port Glasgow's Clune Park shortly before it was demolished.

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...