Preventing the formation of a new axis is a valuable pursuit for the West. It should learn from the past – rather than repeating it – by avoiding the mistakes of Kissinger's attempt to destabilise ...

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As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state ...

Officials and commentators here have raised warning flags in turn over Gorbachev’s attempts to revive Chinese-Soviet relations and to press ahead with his plan for an Asian-Pacific security accord.

Billy Joel performance in Russia transformed from a feel-good pop rock show to an intense heavy rocker in a matter of seconds.

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller. By Ian Thomson In the autumn of 1988 I travelled from Helsinki ...

With the end of the 12 day war, the question of regime change in Iran remains central. There are many scenarios, highlighting different factors and views. Analysts contrast the sweeping 1979 ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a state in peril – one whose decades-long revisionist foreign policy has had a boomerang ...

For Vladimir Putin, Russians’ appetite for the vegetable has become problematic, however. Shortages have pushed up prices by ...

Though Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms were praised in the West, the collapse of the Soviet Union schooled a generation of authoritarian rulers in the dangers of tolerating any signs of dissent or ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming ...