Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader ...

Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

When Ukraine instead fought Russia to a standstill, reports circulated that Mr Beseda had been arrested. Yet on March 24th ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Yevgeny Savostyanov, who used to head up the KGB in Moscow, said the continent must 'wake up quickly' to Vladimir Putin 's ...

The members of the European Council are the heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission.

Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina was born on October 24 1931 in the Tatar republic of the Soviet Union. Her mother was of Russian-Polish-Jewish extraction. Her father, a land surveyor, was a Tatar, an ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

The largest federal employees union is suing the Homeland Security Department to stop the Trump administration from canceling its contract with T.S.A. workers. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien America's ...