U.S. and Russian participants have met in Switzerland for unofficial talks about the Ukraine war in recent months, including ...

Russian jamming of GPS signals continues to be a problem in several European countries. Russia denies any involvement but the evidence of Russian complicity grows with each incident. In this respect ...

On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008.

Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ... and 81 of the 103 generals and admirals are executed. The secret police strictly enforce Stalinism and people are encouraged ...

Allied bombers destroyed huge parts of Dresden, killing thousands. Those exploiting the attacks for political ends often give ...

There are some alarming parallels between Elon Musk's consolidation of power in the United States and the rise of one of ...

When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many ...

At a mass rally of one million people, Castro reveals the class content of his revolution ... the U.S. State Department conducts high-level secret talks with Cuban officials.

The biography begins with the 1905 revolution in Moscow, when Vavilov, the grandson of a Russian serf ... Vavilov was under secret surveillance by the Soviet political police, the OGPU (later ...