Usually the truth is more prosaic than a reportedly “apocryphal story”, but not regarding the joke about “Onassis and Mrs Khrushchev” (Letters, February 17).

The real trouble began when Gronchi and Pella, in fashionable Italian style, arrived 15 minutes late for a business session with Khrushchev and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, found the ...

He has been a minister for 20 years, the only person capable of rivaling Andreï Gromyko, his Soviet predecessor who was foreign minister for 28 years, from 1957 to 1985. Two teams will now be ...

Stalin’s 1930s purges, however, created promising job opportunities in the Soviet foreign service, to which Andrei Gromyko would prove ideally suited. Rising rapidly up the system, he specialized in ...

Others make bold to place Thabo Mbeki in the elite pantheon of all-time international diplomatic colossi like Lord Castlereigh, Prince Metternich, Prince Talleyrand, Otto von Bismarck, General Marshal ...

declared Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassador at the UN. The same can be said for the behavior of the nations in the East. The inability to protect the Jews’ fundamental rights or compensate ...

ANDREI SOLDATOV is an investigative journalist and Co-Founder of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for European ...