One of the most iconic reminders of the Cold War era, Checkpoint Charlie, was dismantled on 1990. The iconic checkpost served ...

The daughter of Perth's first ever female provost has paid tribute to her mum as a devoted family woman who always put others ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...

The Scorpions story is being turned into a film. Now the notable cast has been announced. 'The Crown' star Dominic West leads ...

Governor Ned Lamont recently signed into law legislation that designates June 12 of each year in Connecticut as National Women Veterans Recognition Day to recognize the contributions of women who have ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern ...

Comfortably at home, Zarutska, who went by Liuda, settled in to watch the news, as Ukrainians anxious about the war with ...

It is a fair bet that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s ‘so-called supreme leader’ in the words of president Trump, didn’t ...

In this gallery, click through and be reminded of how quickly the Berlin Wall went up, and the way it cut an entire city in ...

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of slavery was finally put down. It had been more than a month since the ...