The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Russian state’s ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

The statement issued... by the official Soviet news agency, Tass, which in effect warned the Japanese Government against agreeing to China’s demand for inclusion of an anti-hegemony clause in ...

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...