If the US abandons New START, say goodbye to that comfortable feeling we once enjoyed of relative freedom from an imminent ...

In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...

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

News that Nicolas Maduro was in U.S. custody within hours and without any American casualties did not simply change the ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

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.’ ...

A Kremlin official says that Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal.

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

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...

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

In 1949, urging the U.S. to overthrow Guatemala's democratic government, lawmakers didn't say a word about the real ...