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

VILNIUS – Robertas Povilaitis, the son of a man killed during the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, said on Tuesday he regretted that prosecutors never opened a criminal case against ...

This ambition reflects more than three decades of reform and a sustained belief that education represents the country’s most ...

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO ...

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 ...

Aldrich Ames, a former CIA agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia, has died, reports CBS ...

The Kremlin said U.S. President Donald Trump has not yet responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to extend the ...

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

In December 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Sergey Krikalev found out from orbit, still living aboard Mir with no clear return date and an identity tied to a country that had vanished. This is ...

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela ...