By Brezhnev’s late 60s and early 70s, he was too ill to travel abroad or make public appearances. Indeed, his debility left the Soviet Union without a real leader for the final six or seven ...

TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, demanding compensatory ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

Brezhnev was also extraordinarily loyal ... of American defense spending provided at most an opportunity for leaders of the Soviet military-industrial complex to justify their claims to ...

With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...

Over the years, theories and rumors about the crash have abounded: One is that the former cosmonaut was drunk; another, that he was sabotaged by a jealous Leonid Brezhnev, then the Soviet leader.

Nuclear proliferation is the increase in the amount of nuclear weapons a country has, or the spread of nuclear capabilities to non-nuclear countries. The superpowers feared nuclear weaponry could ...