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 ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for 37 years ...

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

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

Pioneer Summer,” by Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova, which sparked a backlash amid a government crackdown, is now available in English ...

Secretary-General Mark Rutte is getting allies to spend trillions more on defense—and keep Donald Trump on side.

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

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

The story that unfolds in "Shifty" is one of national decline, said Chris Bennion in The Daily Telegraph. Its message is that ...

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

Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to ...

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