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

One energy expert compares Venezuela's socialist upheaval to the Berlin Wall collapse as the alleged narco-terrorist leader ...

On May 1st, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft deep into Soviet territory, believing he was untouchable at 70,000 feet. Below him, the USSR launched a massive ...

TV shows based on real-life events continue to dominate streaming platforms, promising authenticity, relevance and emotional ...

European Union officials have called for sanctioning some of Russia’s most prominent TV personalities, including Pavel ...

One of the most notorious spies in United States history, responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous ...

Paul Robeson was a superstar of the stage and screen, a talented football player and a music hitmaker. Then, amid the ...

There have been weeks of protests in East Germany and then on November 4 the huge Alexanderplatz demonstration takes place, ...

No place was hit harder than Cuba by the shock waves that Saturday morning’s U.S. military seizure of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro sent throughout Latin America and the world.

More than 340 protests have taken place across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency ...

The Opinion columnist M. Gessen examines how the president governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force ...