Summers in Russia are short. Come autumn, the stages will be dismantled and the flowers removed. No one knows what next ...

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Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

Europe braces for Trump's arrival at the Nato summit with difficult questions over Iran and defence, following the 5% defence ...

Global peacekeeping is a tricky task, but who knew all it would take to end the Cold War was for Billy Joel to lose his rag?

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Despite suffering over 1 million casualties, pounding Ukrainian cities nightly with missiles and drones, and committing ...

The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok, Pelican £25, 544 pages. Charles Clover is FT’s security & defence correspondent and a former Moscow bureau chief.

“The threat we face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War," Starmer told workers and journalists ... developed its drone technology to counter ...

Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...