Refusenik was one of the leaders of Operation Wedding, a failed attempt to hijack an empty civilian plane to escape Soviet ...

Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current president wants to undo that.

As many as 24 prisoners were freed as part of one of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the United States since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, Prisoner of Zion, journalist, writer and man of struggle, passed away at the age of 85. Kuznetsov was a symbol of the struggle to liberate Soviet Jews and enable their ...

As the prisoners were led back to the stadium ... Indira Gandhi of India and Harold Wilson of Great Britain lobbied the Soviet Union to restrain the North Vietnamese. United Nations Secretary ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, a prominent Soviet-Israeli prisoner of Zion, dissident and journalist, died in Israel today at the age of 86. Kuznetsov was one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Jewish ...

That era saw a number of prominent prisoner exchanges, including a swap that freed the Jewish Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who was a face of the movement to free Soviet Jewry and, over the ...