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In the last novel by Martin Cruz Smith, the murder of a government minister brings his Russian detective hero full circle.
The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...
Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA ...
Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, appears destined for the scrapyard after a disastrous and decade-long ...
Martin Cruz Smith, the American novelist, who has died aged 82, was the author of the international bestseller Gorky Park ...
Bierbauer was the network's senior White House correspondent for nine years during the Reagan and Bush administrations. He joined CNN in 1981 as its defense correspondent. Bierbauer also covered the ...
Those who accept the invitation will be joining a pretty massive fraternity of filmmakers, in many different disciplines: The Academy doesn’t publicize its actual membership rolls, but it’s believed ...
On June 22, 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear war.
EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no ...
Thiruvananthapuram: People watched in rapt attention when Yasha, an old man who worked for 45 years in a Soviet-era factory, dawdled across the screen.
But Brezhnev, who manoeuvred himself into power in Khrushchev’s stead, learned from the fall of his predecessor and tightened his grip on the levers of power.