Why not,” Viktor Belenko quipped years later, recalling the day he rolled the dice on a Cold War escape that would upend ...

The Tupolev Tu-22 started as the Soviet Union’s bold attempt at supersonic strategic dominance. But in 1986, it found ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Russian state’s ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...