Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of ...

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...

Venezuela, under both Chavez and Maduro, is a collectivist hellhole, where the state seized the means of production, ...

The Jewish presence in Armenia dates back nearly two millennia, to the period of pagan Armenia. According to historical ...

It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

Aldrich Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency spy who was sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to the Soviet Union ...

Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly ...

On the night of 19 January the Soviet army occupied the cities of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre took place ...

Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

The Trump administration does not even pretend to care about democracy, human rights, political refugees or victims of ...