At the height of the Cold War, Czechoslovakia embarked on a tank project that could have changed the course of military ...

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

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 ...

A hen is not a bird, nor a woman a human being. —Russian saying When Alfred Hall was a proper, young cipher clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked ...

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 ...

The rift, provoked by the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis in Russian custody, was the latest in a series of spats that ...

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

Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink These overtures are part of a rapid warming between Moscow and Washington during Trump’s ...

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.

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 ...