Smith's book focuses on a series of hockey matches between Canada and the Soviet Union during the Cold War ... central banker donned his national team jersey for the final of the tournament.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players ...

Alex Ovechkin almost stopped playing hockey. His mother ... 17, 1985, and coming of age just as the Soviet Union was giving way to a new Russia, Ovechkin was drawn to the game through his father.

Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...

Today in History for March 30: ...

1951 — Ezzard Charles wins a unanimous 15-round decision over Jersey Joe Walcott to retain ... edges early leader Viktor Petrenko of the Soviet Union. 1992 — Ray Floyd, 49, holds off Fred ...

when they took on the Soviet Union’s national hockey team in Olympic competition. Most of the Soviet players were members of the Soviet Red Army who enforced Soviet domination of their country.

The Red Wings drafted him at a time when teams thought it was silly to take players in the draft from Russia due to the iron curtain of the communist Soviet Union. After being discharged for ...

“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 ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...