Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public domain Soviet pilot Victor Belenko defected with his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan in September 1976, riding out of the Iron ...

Once-secret government documents reveal long-hidden details on one of the CIA’s most prominent Cold War controversies, involving defecting Soviet intelligence agents and U.S. counterspy programs ...

A sprawling property with a movie-worthy USSR connection has hit the market for the first time in more than 70 years. Known as Rocking Chair Ranch, the 7,200-plus-acre expanse is located across the ...

Erik Scott, history professor and director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas, gave a lecture at Coble Hall on Thursday on his new book, ...

Right now, there are powerful, influential people in Russia who want to get out. Celebrities, well-known intellectuals and other public figures fear the immense loss of economic opportunity and worry ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage. Original documents from one of the biggest ...

‘Russia’s border does not end anywhere,” declared Vladimir Putin in 2016, and the statement soon appeared on billboards in Russian-occupied Ukraine. As Russian defectors have learned, the country’s ...

After the disasters at Stalingrad and Kursk, Germany faced catastrophic manpower losses and shrinking divisions across the Eastern Front. To fill the gaps, the Wehrmacht expanded its use of Soviet ...