For years, critics of the US establishment - especially abroad - have joked about the 'Washington Obkom', a reference to the ...

US President Donald Trump seems to want Modi to find new friends and embrace them, preferably in India’s neighbourhood.

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I entered Finland at the Lappeenranta border crossing in Karelia after two months of road travel through the Soviet Union ...

Born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1961, Maizie Ursula Williams moved to the UK when she was nine. In 1973 she won ...

On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...

Conquering the galaxy has not seemed more imperative since the 1960s, when the contest between the USA and USSR to put the ...

In a new essay, Aleksandr Šipkov goes so far as to point the finger at the philologist who, in the 1990s, helped Russia rediscover both Eastern and Western Christian traditions through his lect ...

I first met Andrei Gromyko in London in 1945, where he was representing the Soviet Union on the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations. Gromyko had been a very young wartime Soviet ambassador in ...