A big, brutal, blundering and untrustworthy bear – its accurate and enduring emblem. Some of its oblasts ... divided Europe and placed Poland in the Soviet sphere, where it would remain cruelly ...

“The monstrous lurks somewhere in that ambiguous, primal space between fear and attraction," writes Jeffrey Cohen, the editor of Monster ... melted down in 1982 and Soviet-American tensions ...

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Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England. He was a double agent who helped change the course of the ...

As I was recovering from my shock and disbelief from reading Andrew Napolitano’s recent column the concept of “useful idiot” (from the Cold War era) came to mind (“My weekend in Moscow,” Web, March 13 ...

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In a video posted on Telegram in early February, two floating barriers are shown at the entrance to the natural harbor at Balaklava in Russian-held Crimea. Pro-Ukrainian activists claim the ...

Peter Baker, a leading reporter at The New York Times, blasted President Trump’s White House over its decision to take control of the press pool covering the president and ban The Associated ...

Try as I might, entertaining is usually a hustle for me. No matter how much I plan, the final 30 minutes before a dinner party is pure mayhem. I’m usually barefoot, covered in flour, still in ...