Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...

On February 22, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, the scrappy, young U.S. men's hockey team faced the dominant Soviet Union ...

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has found success in both scripted and documentary films, many of which explore the ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Few would deny that the EU now also has a Soviet-style “nomenklatura”; a new class of “Eurocrats” which also enjoys legal ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Marking the 37th anniversary of the withdrawal of former Soviet Union forces from Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday said aggressor powers should draw ...

Repealing Jackson-Vanik is not merely a question of foreign policy; it is a question of legislative arithmetic.

Communal central heating means Moscow can plunge entire neighbourhoods into cold with a single strike ...

Obituaries have memorialized the lives of a figure-skating trailblazer, a “Miracle on Ice” hockey player, a bobsledder who ...

Sergei Krikalev watched the Soviet Union collapse from 200 miles above Earth, unsure when he would ever come home. Then, ...

The White House too often exaggerates or ignores the real degrees of danger posed by perceived major threats of the time.

In the bleakest days of the Cold War, there was a terrifying yet oddly reassuring logic to the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two superpowers were constrained by ...