You're next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

By Gamini Jayaweera In 1985, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who assumed the presidency of the USSR, sought to reform ...

You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, ...

Shortly before Christmas in 1984, Margaret Thatcher famously declared her liking of Mikhail Gorbachev, insisting “we can do ...

Myanmar Myanmar’s military conducted a coup d’etat in February 2021, removing and imprisoning members of the democratically elected members ... Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev decided to ...

Ms. Davis is the author of “Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory and the America We Once Knew.” ...

I saw no leadership, diplomacy, listening or compassion coming from our American leaders. They did nothing but shout and act ...

Navalny battled for an alternative to Putin’s regime – and paid the ultimate price. The Kremlin has made sure there cannot be another opposition figure like him.

Since the irritable, sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian president met with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the ...

Europe’s panicked response to the shift in Washington’s priorities raises a number of intriguing questions, not least why its ...