The death of Oleg Gordievsky at the age of 86 comes at a moment when relations between his native Russia and his adopted ...

KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end ...

By Ruben Mirzakhanyan The infamous plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia in 1937 is a ...

After debuting in New York last summer, the exhibition “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” — spotlighting grassroots organizations ...

Any and all western supported, democratic institutions or leaders in liberated Eastern Europe were rounded up by Soviet police (NKVD) and either executed or deported to the Gulag in Siberia.

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Caption: “History admirers know that there is no difference between the TCC and the NKVD”. If in 2014, Russia insisted that Ukraine was a failed state ruled by armed “Nazi” groups, today it spreads ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a ...

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FROM the mind of Co Roscommon-born comedian and actor Chris O’Dowd, Small Town Big Story is described as “a very dramatic comedy set in a village full of secrets on the border of Ireland and ...