Oleg Gordievsky, Britain’s most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England. He was a double agent who helped change the course of the ...
Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink
Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...
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‘Connected to another world’: What Voice of America meant to Russians in Cold War
Voice of America was rejected by the Soviets and Vladimir Putin. But some in Moscow wax nostalgic about what the state-funded ...
Russian court jails anti-war Soviet-era dissident for 16 years, prosecutor says
A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor General's ...