It was part of the détente that culminated in the Helsinki Accords, the breakthrough agreement that finally, 30 years after the end of World War II, stabilized relations between the Western alliance ...

Vladimir Putin "routinely" betrayed his long-term partner with an underage beauty pageant participant who appeared in a provocative calendar commemorating his birthday. The recent graduate was ...

Fear has been the invisible force holding President Putin’s Russia together for more than two decades. It kept ordinary citizens quiet, journalists self-censoring, and officials loyal. But the spell ...