It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...

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MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union were wrong and that claims Putin plans to invade a ...

Donald Trump hates antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not ...

I met Alina Rotenberg in the summer of 2012. At thirty-six, she was no longer married, but her last name spoke volumes in Moscow: her ex-husband, Igor, was the son of Arkady Rotenberg, one of Vladimir ...

Apart from showing it off to such fellow communist leaders as Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro, the decade was increasingly consumed with the challenge imposed by Mikhail Gorbachev’s doctrine of ...

Josef Stalin loses his pipe and informs his security chief. Later he finds it behind the sofa. “That’s impossible,” says the henchman, “three people have confessed to stealing it!” Lots of jokes were ...

Former CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer has died, his family announced on Sunday. He was 83 years old. Bierbauer retired from CNN in 2001 after two decades covering news in Washington, DC, and ...

-Unlike the Soviet Union's final years, which saw a rapid turnover of leadership and liberalizing reforms under Gorbachev, Putin's Russia is a stable, repressive regime. -However, this analysis argues ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts as he marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, the landmark Cold War-era agreement ...