Book excerpt: "A Different Russia" by Marvin Kalb
The veteran CBS and NBC journalist writes about covering the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
What happened to the Chornobyl nuclear plant in 1986?
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure on Friday, is a ...
The National Interest2d
Vladimir Putin Wants A Second Yalta
The Kremin has been actively promoting the idea of a new Yalta agreement, that new lines in the sand must be drawn for modern Russia.
Images of Ukraine, When Things Began to Fall Apart
The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
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FACTBOX: Cases of prisoner exchanges between the Soviet Union/Russia and US
The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...