Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre ...

I was 6 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine stepped into a new era of democracy, free speech and expanded ...

When Gandhi imposed the Emergency in 1975, the CPI broke away from the rest of the Opposition and supported the move, unlike ...

In its conflict with the USSR, China learned that a nation with a fledgling nuclear arsenal could not hope to deter a ...

A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

The prospect of Ukraine, a country with even stronger historical and cultural ties to Russia, drawing closer to or even ...

After a tragedy in the Florida Straits, a dramatic tug of war takes place between Castro and America - all centred on a ...

If Iran does go nuclear, other countries in and around the Middle East may well follow suit, including Saudi Arabia and ...

Russia’s education minister on Wednesday accused fellow former Soviet republics of presenting what Moscow deems to be a ...

One of Armenia’s top religious leaders was arrested on terrorism charges and accused of plotting to overthrow the government, the second arrest in a week of a prominent political opponent ...

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.

A new Pew Research Center report showed 60% of Americans, including 77% of Democrats and 45% of Republicans, view NATO ...