Most of us who follow these things assumed all along that the KGB was behind it even though it probably would never be proved. Now we have an actual KGB agent who confirms it: Yuri Andropov, former ...

On Sept. 18, 2017, a hero of humanity, Stanislav Petrov, died. Hero of humanity is a mild description for Petrov. On Sept. 26, 1983, Soviet air defense officer, Stanislav Petrov, was on duty at a ...

Vladimir Putin is in the Andropov mold. Vladimir Putin looks more and more like a heavy-handed imitation of Yuri Andropov–does anyone still remember him? Andropov was that other KGB chairman who rose ...

WASHINGTON — In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and ...

MOSCOW — Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 83. Kryuchkov died Friday in Moscow of ...

In a silenced country, Andrei Sakharov was, for nearly two decades, the leading voice of democratic dissent. Living under constant surveillance, he did more than just speak out against the suppression ...

“I have a difficult time explaining that speech. It doesn’t accord with either the world as we see it nor with the character of our interactions with the Russians.”— Condoleezza Rice, Feb. 15, 2007 ...

Forty-seven U.S. senators, all Republicans, ignited a strong reaction last month when they signed a letter that notified the "Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran" that any treaty with the U.S. on ...

A Cold War-era Washington Post journalist who scooped not only the American media but also US intelligence agencies in 1984 was mourned this week after he died on Sept. 10 at the age of 87. Doder’s ...