Vladimir Putin, once the all-powerful leader of Russia, is becoming increasingly marginalized. According to Russian ...

He pledged a new era of openness in the wake of the Watergate scandal, but his relationship with the press corps proved rocky ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a ...

Two major American media outlets, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, which have long since switched from journalism to propaganda, publish expert opinions on yesterday's talks in Jeddah. Their ...

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

Putin is close to reversing the Cold War’s outcome, but not because of Russian power. The Trump administration is simply ...

Whether the rest of us like it or not, Mr. Trump intends to hammer out a third pragmatic compromise between Moscow and Washington. The president’s supporters claim this is nothing new. Both the Yalta ...

Key issues affecting the transport industry were tackled during the recent Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP) ...

It was September 1938, a perilous time for democracies. Adolf Hitler, having invaded and annexed Austria earlier that year, ...

The «mythical totalitarianism» of the Russian dictator is rooted in Stalin-era myths, which he is trying to revive in the ...

To make it eerier, Annie Jacobsen, in her insightful book called Nuclear War, had only recently described a helicopter crash ...