The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

A soldier in Ukraine's Special Operations Forces told BI that the upgrade was an adjustment for some, but they got the hang ...

To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air Force at War, part of Time-Life Books’s excellent book series The Epic of ...

Putin has made significant progress in his quest to reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. Trump is aiding and ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

In his review of “Crucibles of Power,” Prof. Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished collective farms and allowed ...

With the Cold War at its height and the Soviet Union having dominated the game for years, Spassky faced a must-win situation in his match-up with the eccentric 29-year-old, who openly criticised ...

Is Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler looking to roll through Europe or has the West encroached on the security of what was the Soviet Union and is now Russia? Well, let's take a look at the history.