Traveling to Kaliningrad, Russia, the Russian 'island' in the heart of Europe, surrounded by European Union (EU) countries.

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 ...

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

German director Dennis Gansel remembers an incident that would ultimately inspire his war film The Tank (original German ...

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

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

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

Explore how major events between 12 and 18 January were captured on The Independent’s front pages ...

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

The Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a trick whereby the cat fades away ...

John Major’s government cut defence spending to below 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in in 1995, and it has not risen ...

In his enthralling “The Spy in the Archive,” Gordon Corera tells the story of an unlikely hero embedded within the heart of ...