Gary Powers, Jr. took a U-2 flight in 2000. He talks about what he saw from 70,000 ft., including Area 51. He also discusses ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to ...

A Catholic priest in Belarus on Monday was convicted on charges of high treason for criticizing the government and handed an ...

He was engaged in the organization of espionage and sabotage operations, among which stand out the assassination of the ...

Jimmy Carter has long been cast as one of America’s least-effective modern presidents—blamed for failing to tame inflation, ...

NY state to pay Attica victims; top Nixon aides convicted in Watergate scandal; Soviet trial of Japanese war criminals; Stalin steps up slander of Trotsky.

Former President Jimmy Carter led the US through a tumultuous time of conflict in the Middle East, gas shortages, Cold War ...

President Vladimir Putin further cemented his grip on power and sought to counter Russia's isolation from the West over the ...

The year 2024 saw President Vladimir Putin further cement his power as he sought to counter Russia’s isolation over the war ...

Spying runs in the family for Oleh Kolesnikov.The Ukrainian citizen said his father was a Soviet intelligence agent in Cuba ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Faced with one of the most serious economic challenges in independent India, Singh decided to introduce the economic reforms ...