Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to ...

Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...

This Soviet biplane first took to the skies in 1947. It was actively used in the civil air fleet, cargo transportation and ...

The Russian president hobnobbed with world leaders and received a plethora of gifts, including a pair of hunting dogs.

Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, now finds herself at the center of a growing ...

Even though Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (1977-81), served just one term, his foreign policy that ...

A meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of former Soviet nations has plunged into disarray when two of the ...

During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’ ...

In 2019 the last Soviet leader was admitted for pneumonia. Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms, including allowing massive numbers of Jews to emigrate to Israel, changed his country and the world, died at 91. Russian media said ...