As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, the question of Europe’s long-term security order looms larger than ever — can there be stability with Russia, or must the continent prepare for ...

Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age 88. It was announced by the Russian Chess Federation that regretted the event as a “great loss for Russia”. Spassky held the title of ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Is Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler looking to roll through Europe or has the West encroached on the security of what was the Soviet Union and is now Russia? Well, let's take a look at the history.

A top Ukrainian official said Russia beat its 2024 recruitment goal and is still doing so in 2025. That's after Moscow already raised its goal to 430,000 troops last year. It comes as Russia has ...

Spassky, a one-time player for the Soviet Union, would represent France in three World Chess Olympiads. In 2012, Spassky returned to Russia, regaining his citizenship in 2013. Spassky was known in ...

The Ukrainian air force would likely hang the Tauruses under the swinging wings of ex-Soviet Sukhoi Su-24 bombers that the British and French have already modified to carry Storm Shadows and SCALP ...

By Ivan Nechepurenko and Constant Méheut On Tuesday, America’s top intelligence officials will release their current assessment of Russia. They are caught between what their analysts say and ...

Russia is eyeing talks with the Trump administration about re-establishing a significant diplomatic presence in the US as an opening to rebuild its spy network in the West, current and former US ...

Re “Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup” (nytimes.com, March 3) and “Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia” (news article, March 4 ...

Trump is trying to win Putin's support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, as both sides continued trading heavy aerial strikes through the weekend and Russia moved ...

Of course, American institutions and traditions are far stronger than Russia’s fragile post-Soviet democracy was when Putin took over from Boris Yeltsin, who had already done his share of damage ...