There is little love for Russia in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia after decades of subjugation by the Russian Soviet Union, but cutting the electrical ties that bound them to ...

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"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

This year, the Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum was awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize for her “indispensable contribution to the preservation of democracy.” Applebaum is the author of ...

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Princeton University Press, 816 pages, August 2024 Professor Benjamin Nathans thinks ...

IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the United States' most advanced Cold War spy plane. It was designed to fly over Soviet airspace at Mach 3+ above 80,000 feet. At those speeds, skin temperatures could ...