Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine votes for independence in a referendum, with 92 percent of Ukrainians supporting independence, and elects Leonid Kravchuk as president.

Public Domain The 1947 Truman Doctrine was crucial for Greece to be able to avoid falling into the sphere of Soviet influence while the country was ravaged by the Civil War (1946-1949). With the ...

In his 2017 book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, British journalist Luke Harding recounted how Trump’s friendship with the Soviet diplomat ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

20, 1970. (AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau, File) Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky, center, is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on ...

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 ...

A former officer of Russia's spy agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) has claimed that US president Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a "potential Soviet asset'. According to him, ...

Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet intelligence officer and former head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, claims that Soviet Russia recruited Donald Trump as a KGB agent in 1987. People are ...