Just past midnight on Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on overnight duty inside Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker southwest of Moscow where the Soviet Union monitored its early-warning satellites ...

He and his family were spirited out of the Soviet Union in a daring CIA operation in 1980. ... Victor Sheymov, KGB officer who defected from Soviet Union, dies at 73. December 5, 2019.

On the night of September 26, 1983, Petrov was watch officer in charge of the Soviet Union's recently completed US-KS nuclear launch warning satellite network, known as "Oko" ...

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

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 ...

Former Soviet Counterintelligence Officer Met With Don Jr. By Eric Levitz , features writer for Intelligencer who covers politics and economics July 14, 2017 ...

Among the 2,891 items declassified by the U.S. government in Thursday's release are details about Oswald's links with the Soviet Union and what Moscow thought of him.

Throughout the 1970s, Victor Sheymov rose quickly through the hierarchy of the KGB, the spy agency of the Soviet Union. He was assigned to the Eighth Chief Directorate, perhaps the KGB’s most ...