The policy of appeasement – strategic concessions to an aggressor that are designed to avoid war – is generally most closely ...

The series was commissioned by Yuri Andropov, then-head of the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, as a propaganda project. It had a similar cultural impact on Soviet audiences as James Bond did ...

And on 5 April 1970, under direct orders from KGB boss Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev, the last of Hitler's bones were burned in secret and his ashes dumped in a stream in the East German city ...

Under the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Union was ... was an agent of the KGB, an argument Sosonko believes is an oversimplification.

Stepan Chervonenko] told Andropov [then chairman of the KGB] in July 1981 that the leadership of the French Communist Party [PCF] had repeatedly and insistently proposed inviting the French ...

(READ MORE: The Kremlin’s Dupe: Ted Kennedy’s Russia Romance) Kengor revealed to Levin a secret letter by Kennedy to then-Russian KGB leader Andropov, looking for ways to “counter the ...

the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark. Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill.

the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark. Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill.

This practice was introduced by Yuri Andropov (head of the KGB from 1967 to 1982): hundreds of thousands of agents have been introduced into banks, publishing houses, commercial enterprises ...

Sometimes, they are as much about practicalities, even expedience. There was Yuri Andropov the KGB chief who succeeded Brezhnev in November 1982 instead of Konstantin Chernenko. Andropov realized ...