We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many expected NATO to disappear with it. Instead, the alliance expanded and adapted. This ...

The United States is judged not only by the wars it fights, but by the expectations it cultivates. From Budapest in 1956 to Tehran in the twenty-first century, the pattern persists. Revolutions are ...

That's the question most of you probably answered instinctively: in 2014, when Vladimir Putin, exploiting political ...

As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...

For decades, this place didn’t exist on any map - yet it was the most nuked location on Earth. The Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen bombs here, while local civilians were kept ...

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As The Times explained last week, a 1951 agreement grants the United States the ability to “construct, install, maintain and ...

As the belligerent US president threatens more attacks on South America with no regard to international law, he is causing ...

The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

People will be more willing to return if Ukraine is able to regain most of the territory seized by Russia since 2014, Hladun suggests. But anything short of that could leave Ukrainians feeling ...

One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a ...