The unconventional diplomat used London parties and soirees to befriend and influence politicians, media moguls and ...

A video showing a matatu driver and passengers dancing attracted backlash online. The driver let go of the steering wheel to ...

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's long-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been a central figure in shaping the country's ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin explained why Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was called "Mr. No" in the West. The Russian leader shared his memories on this topic during a press conference ...

Naturally, this is a complex instrument. I would like to remind you that during the Soviet Union era, our Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko earned the moniker “Mister No.” You may ask, why? Because, ...

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 ...

This was ill-judged brinkmanship, and the book contains little mention of the pressure that the Politburo, including Gorbachev’s friend Eduard Shevardnadze and his ageing foe Andrei Gromyko, ...

The Russians did not even wait for the NATO chiefs to get back home. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko briskly dismissed the NATO chiefs’ proffer of a new foreign ministers’ conference on ...

The vote in favor was unanimous. Three months ago Russia had vetoed a similar proposal; this time, although Russia’s Andrei Gromyko again brandished the veto, he failed to throw it. The U.N ...

That same year, the Soviets marched into Afghanistan over the Christmas holidays, and Carter said publicly that he couldn’t believe that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had sat across ...