In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev approved the transfer of Crimea from the Russian Soviet Republic to the Ukrainian ...

Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft this superbly constructed history of Cold War diplomacy. The evidence he ...

THE trade strategy of Soviet Russia has been created inevitably as a consequence of two principles basic to the structure of the Communist state -- repudiation of the debts of preceding governments ...

Geopolitical rivalry, intensified by fighting in Ukraine, is amplifying domestic struggles in countries like Georgia and Moldova whose people are split on which side to support. By Andrew Higgins ...