Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...

The very public and acrimonious split between US President Donald Trump and his once-favorite aide Elon Musk would be ...

Ever since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has been treated as a “pariah state” ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

In a new essay, Aleksandr Šipkov goes so far as to point the finger at the philologist who, in the 1990s, helped Russia rediscover both Eastern and Western Christian traditions through his lect ...

Instead, JFK was assassinated that fall, and within a year, the Politburo and Khrushchev’s “friend” and deputy, Leonid Brezhnev, forced him out, largely over the poor Soviet economy.

This is a galling personal defeat for both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian ...

(See Cover Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev beamed his golden smile into the radiotelephone that connected him with the heavens. He was talking to Russia’s latest space heroes, three cosmonauts ...

While his predecessors Lenin and Stalin and successors Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko all died in power, Khrushchev was sent into retirement, where he lived under supervision for another seven ...

He was not imprisoned or killed after losing power. While his predecessors Lenin and Stalin and successors Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko all died in power, Khrushchev was sent into retirement, ...