Former Karabakh official protests on eve of trial in Azerbaijan
A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani ...
On this date: Second component to world's first space station launches
The union of Soyuz 4 and 5 in January 1969 was dubbed by the Soviet Union as "The world's first space station" ...
Foreign Affairs21h
How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
In the early 1950s, the United States faced a critical intelligence challenge in its burgeoning competition with the Soviet ...
Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for years about a Soviet spy in the palace
Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified ...
El País in English2d
The last secrets of Kim Philby, the Soviet double agent who betrayed the UK
The British secret service has declassified new documents about the famous spy who ended up fleeing to Moscow, where he died ...
Rubio Aims to Take on the Axis of Anger: China, Russia, North Korea and Iran
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
The Forward1d
The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
In 1949, the American Communist activist was invited by the Soviet government to give a huge concert in Moscow.