In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko often claimed in his three decades in power that Belarus has no political ...

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by ...

Anthony Blunt had been recruited by the NKVB, the Soviet Union's espionage service which later became the KGB, on the campus ...

Recently declassified MI5 files have shed light on one of the most infamous chapters in Cold War espionage, revealing ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a ...

This unit was created in 1991 after Ukraine emerged from the demise of the Soviet Union. During its first thirteen years the ... The SBU is the successor to the Ukrainian branch of the KGB. After ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s photo in uniform from the time he served in the secret service KGB. (Photo: Kremlin) Putin returned to Russia after seeking retirement in 1990 just as Soviet Union ...

“Our current market is more like central planning from the Soviet Union than it is like a free market. “I’m old enough to remember the European Economic Community, when the common ...

premiered on millions of television sets in the Soviet Union on Jan. 1, 1976, Igor Rogovyi was 9 and living in Odesa, Ukraine. “This movie is from the depths of my childhood,” Rogovyi said.

However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses ... samizdat magazines and joined the Union for Intellectual Freedom, a ...

Both the United States and the Soviet Union considered espionage critical to their interests in spying and counterintelligence on the other side. The CIA and the KGB were locked in a lengthy (and ...