FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

These steps were petty but chilling. They reminded me of the way photographs of the May Day parade in the old Soviet Union would be altered to erase officials who had fallen out of favor and been ...

Lukashenko’s foreign policy echoed the old Soviet Union’s position during the Cold War. He railed against Western imperialism and travelled to Belgrade amid NATO bombing to support Serbia’s ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States and its NATO allies on the ...