The Stalin Note of 1952 proposed German unification, shaping Cold War history with unanswered questions and missed ...

Qanats can date back 3,000 years, but can be really tricky to find, especially in politically volatile countries.

Russia has a long history of spying on the U.S. from the relative safety of Mexico City, dating back to the 1980s. Decades ...

Murza, one of the faces of Russian opposition to Putin alongside Evan Gershkovich, sits down with The Independent for the ...

Britain and its Nato allies are looking to a new crop of nimble defence start-ups to outpace Russia and China in a race to ...

Russian intelligence agencies are increasing their presence in Mexico to conduct espionage operations against the United ...

During the period of Soviet rule, the government operated under the system of planned economy, the brainchild of Stalin and ...

The term "dictator" is thrown around casually. We often fail to consider what a true dictatorship looks like. Restricting ...

J.B. S. Haldane was one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century and played an important role in the ...

Sri Lanka stands at a historic crossroads as it approaches its ninth presidential election, scheduled for 21 September. This ...

When in the late 1980s Russian historians found the doors to their archives opening, their publishers no longer afraid of the censors and parts of their public ready for revelations, they first ...

the Cold War and women’s history, said the motivation of the museum changed with global events. The Soviets withdrew from ...