In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that chance rather than characters shaped the clash between ...

But he is not like the other geriatrics in Moscow. For the last fifteen years, Andropov had been no less than the head of the KGB. This makes him not only remarkably clever, but also completely ...

In Russia, it would recall the transition of the KGB director, Yuri Andropov, to general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982. In post-Soviet Russia, it would suggest the ascendancy of ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence agency of ...

His current position is unknown. In 2006, he was deputy head of one of the economic departments of the KGB. In January, it became known that Interpol issued red cards (notices) for the arrest of two ...

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

Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. That Soviet Union included all of the territory of modern Ukraine. Putin aspires to recapture it. His vision is a Russia restored to a status comparable to ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been briefed on a Moscow move to capture the Ukrainian region of Sumy, next to the frontier.