Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...

A simmering political feud in Russia has exploded into a crisis. The head of a Russian mercenary army fighting in Ukraine alongside Moscow’s official military forces has declared war against the ...

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Russia has officially ended a 30-year-old military cooperation agreement with Germany, marking a major turning point in post-Cold War European relations. This agreement, signed in 1996, was a ...

The sudden arrival in Moscow of a high-level East German delegation that included Walter Ulbricht’s Berlin specialist, immediately raised speculation that Berlin was on the agenda.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

∙ASIA. Moscow engineered the neutralization of Laos, and is forcing the U.S. to pour even more military aid—possibly even troops—into shaky South Viet Nam.