FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

“‘KGB agent’ is a hard definition – that he got some money or some instructions. I don’t think so. But he was on the Soviet side, in all aspects,” he says. Soltis points out that ...

By the early 1970s, a drawn-out battle of attrition with the powerful Soviet authorities, spearheaded by the KGB, led to a demoralized nadir for this first wave of dissident activity. The height o ...

who served with Putin in the Soviet KGB, according to people familiar with situation, who asked not to be identified discussing internal information.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to Poland's foreign minister. Speaking on a panel at the World ...

After introducing a “Government” badge last year, the Google Play Store is adding one called “Verified” for consumer-facing VPN apps. Google Play already highlights VPNs that have an ...

NEW glimpses into John F Kennedy's assassination could be revealed as the final sealed files on his death are set to be declassified. Fascination surrounding that fateful day more than 60 years ...

This allows them to park closer to their destinations. Whether you're the driver or a passenger, a Blue Badge lets you park for free in disabled parking bays and can exempt you from other parking ...

The Kremlin on Thursday “respectfully” disputed US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on the Soviet Union playing a supportive role during World War II. On Wednesday, Trump said on his ...

One has to get into the Soviet mindset." Putin, he explains, still views the world through a Cold War lens, and the key to forcing him to the table is shifting the "correlation of forces" so ...

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Times. It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within ...