Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was one of the largest military campaigns in history, ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

One Soviet Navy officer in the mid-1970s didn't think the Soviet Union practiced anything like what communism was supposed to be. He decided he would steal a ship, but defecting to the United ...

As an immigrant from Soviet Russia, Harris’ nomination is giving me flashbacks to the totalitarian country I left behind. Back in the USSR, we had no real elections — and ordinary people had ...

Vartanian spent the next 30 years working as an intelligence officer for the Soviet Union, eventually receiving the title Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest award the country could give.

Police play a vital role in civil society. Some have had to learn this the hard way; for example, the famous Harvard academic Steven Pinker recounts how, in his youth, ...

Tuesday is National Night Out, and Glastonbury police have a big event planned. Officer Sergey Sharov talked with Dennis House about that and his journey from the Soviet Union to Connecticut.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91, ... Petrov was obliged, as an officer, to report the strike and enable a Soviet counterstrike, ...