Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

On March 9, 1962, during the second Lancaster Conference, Jaramogi Oginga held a secret meeting with top Soviet diplomats in ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...

The Cold War era was marked by political tension, espionage, and a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet ...

The Glienicke Bridge connects Berlin and Potsdam and was a legendary site during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet Union boasted an unbroken streak of world ... was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he ...

Mr. Sichel, who died Feb. 24 at 102, served as CIA station chief in Berlin and Hong Kong, where he gathered crucial intelligence in the early years of the Cold War ... in the Soviet Union and ...

Soon after Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, Xi Jinping asked his aides to urgently analyze the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. His concern ...

‘and give us a chess set’ The rest of the world came to remember him as Fischer’s victim or a pawn marching on the battlefield of the 64 squares for Soviet Union ideology in the middle of the Cold War ...