Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as general secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

From 1975: The Spokesman-Review reprinted a story from Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, in which the Russian correspondent gave his impressions of Spokane after his Expo ’74 visit. “The people are ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - One hundred years after its first edition appeared, the once mighty Pravda newspaper has gone back to its origins as a struggling opposition newspaper, but is still defiantly urging ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied ...

In the Soviet Union, where most institutions are new, Pravda (“Truth”) is one of the oldest (33 years). Last week the official daily organ of the Communist Party printed its 10,000th issue (and its ...

Mikhail Gorbachev has been running the Soviet Union for eight months, and his photograph has long since become a fixture on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. Ronald Reagan has been President of the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has explained that when he arrived in Alaska wearing a sweater that appeared to have "USSR" written on it, he did not mean that Russia wants to restore the ...

OMV, an Austrian oil, gas and chemicals group, has dismissed an executive over suspicions of spying for Russia. Source: Austrian news agency APA, as reported by European Pravda Details: On 19 ...

I spent two years in a moderately authoritarian state, the former Yugoslavia, and 14 months off and on in a draconian one, the former Soviet Union. I also taught Russian ...