Ukraine is said to have scrapped 423 Kh-22 large anti-ship ('carrier killer') cruise missiles in the 1990s, together with some 60 strategic bombers that could carry & launch these. (This was due to an agreement with the US.) I'm curious what the original Soviet plan for using these missiles was....

This article claims that after the collapse of the USSR, Russia was in such dire financial straits that flights up to the space station Mir could not only relieve the acting flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, but they could not even send up honey "because there was no honey." This seems very silly ...