Mayday follows a downed US Navy pilot and an ex-KGB loner racing across 1987 Soviet territory as trust, family and Cold War ...

The Soviet state maintained extensive control over publishing and information, but censorship never completely stopped ...

In ‘This Week in History,’ with a nuclear arms summit on the horizon, Reagan and Gorbachev struggled to resolve a crisis of ...

What happens when you cross a downed U.S. Navy pilot and an ex-KGB agent in the middle of the Cold War? Hilarity, it seems, ...

Polls put the party above 40%, but Germany’s 5% threshold and tactical voting could determine whether it can govern alone; ...

September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War Two in Europe.  On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an ...

At an incredible seven miles deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is an impressive achievement of engineering and a small ...

One lesson from the history of the Soviet Union is that dictatorships can last a very long time even if their economic basis ...

These suspicions deepened in May 1926 when Józef Piłsudski, a nationalist figure who had led the Polish Army to victory in ...

Iran is weaker now than the USSR was in 1985 as its economic lifelines are strangled. Could this be the end for Tehran's ...

September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War Two in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an ...

Iran is nu zwakker dan de Sovjet-Unie in 1985, nu zijn economische levensaders worden dichtgeknepen. Zou dit het einde kunnen ...