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

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Former Cyprus President George Vassiliou, who died on Wednesday aged 94, once risked arrest in Cold War Hungary smuggling a ...

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 first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

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A year later, the Fox News host Bill O’Reilly pressed Trump on his repeated expressions of respect for Putin. When O’Reilly ...

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The former counterintelligence officer, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, died Jan. 5. He ...

The Cuban Peso (CUP) is Cuba's official currency, used for local transactions and historical purposes. Explore its history and place in Cuba's monetary system.

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...