This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal ...

As a child, Petrushevskaya listened to an adaptation of War and Peace on the radio, and when each episode ended her ...

The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...

Colin McDonald, who has died aged 95, was an English footballer who represented his country in goals at the 1958 World Cup ...

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

Estonian New Year cards trace a century of changing traditions, revealing how festivity survived even under political ...

We are now in one of those periods, which obliges the United States to rethink its role in the world, just as it was forced to do by the cataclysmic changes that followed the end of the Second World ...

Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to ...