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PUTIN'S FORMER KGB BOSS HEADS SECURITY FOR US EMBASSIES IN RUSSIA
Viktor Budanov was a longtime KGB agent he headed KGB counterintelligence the KGB branch in East Germany in the late 1980s... READ MORE›
FAMILY OF SWEDE WHO VANISHED AFTER SAVING JEWS SUE RUSSIAN STATE
Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the 1940s but disappeared after Soviets took Budapest... READ MORE›
LAWYER WHO MET WITH TRUMP JR. HAD RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS
Natalia Veselnitskaya had represented a unit linked to the Russian spy agency in a property dispute... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN MAN AT TRUMP JR MEETING HAD PARTNER WITH SOVIET INTELLIGENCE TIES
Irakly Kaveladze's partner Boris Goldstein was a Soviet-born banker whose ties to former KGB officials attracted interest from US investigators in the 1990s... READ MORE›
YURI DROZDOV SOVIET SUPERSPY WHO PLANTED ILLEGALS IN OTHER COUNTRIES DIES AT 91
General Drozdov also played a key role in a famous exchange of captive spies between the Soviet Union and the United States... READ MORE›
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'I THOUGHT I WAS SMARTER THAN ALMOST EVERYBODY'
Soviet agents had found the gravestone of a boy who had died aged 10 in Maryland - Jack Barsky - and got a birth certificate... READ MORE›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
RUSSIA 'TO REVIVE THE KGB' AFTER VLADIMIR PUTIN WINS BIGGEST MAJORITY
It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources... READ MORE›
71 YEARS AFTER HE VANISHED RAOUL WALLENBERG IS DECLARED DEAD
Mr. Wallenberg's family said last November that they wanted the Swedish authorities to declare him dead... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
TOP MANAGER AT RUSSIAN CYBERSECURITY FIRM ARRESTED
A top manager for Russia's largest cybersecurity firm and a senior Russian intelligence officer have been arrested on possible treason charges, the newspaper Kommersant... READ MORE›
MI5 IGNORED WARNINGS ABOUT A SOVIET SPY BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM A WOMAN
Mona Maund penetrated the Communist Party in the 1930s and identified the Soviet Union's longest-serving British spy... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT WAS REPORTEDLY KGB AGENT IN SYRIA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Syrian-based KGB agent in 1983, according to a stunning Israeli news report citing smuggled Soviet archives... READ MORE›
RUSSIANS STILL REGRET USSR COLLAPSE, BUT BELIEVE RESTORATION UNREALISTIC
As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›
THE OTHER TIME MOSCOW WENT TO FIGHT FOR AN EMBATTLED ARAB LEADER
However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›
MEET YOSIF STALIN, A CHILD OF THE USSR LIVING IN KREMLIN, VIRGINIA
'Nobody calls me Stalin' Yosif was not the first child of an African-American to be born in the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
HOW THE CIA RAN A 'BILLION-DOLLAR SPY' IN MOSCOW
David Rolph, on his first CIA tour, took over as Tolkachev's case officer in 1980... READ MORE›
CHERNOBYL: TIMELINE OF A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE
4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE TOUCHES DOWN IN AUSTRALIA
Perth Airport spokeswoman Fiona Lander explained the reasoning behind the layovers... READ MORE›
HOW THE CIA RAN A 'BILLION-DOLLAR SPY' IN MOSCOW
David Rolph, on his first CIA tour, took over as Tolkachev's case officer in 1980... READ MORE›
SOVIET DELEGATION ARRIVES IN OTTAWA TO LEARN THE SECRETS OF CANADIAN BEER BREWING
With that aim in mind, in 1980 a Soviet delegation arrived in Ottawa to learn the secrets of Canadian brewing... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN ARTIST PYOTR PAVLENSKY ARRESTED AFTER STARTING FIRE AT SECURITY HQ
His lawyer later told the Interfax news agency that Pavlensky was being held in a Moscow police station and might be charged with arson... READ MORE›
MASTER SPY KIM PHILBY DISCUSSES LIFE AS A SOVIET AGENT IN SECRET VIDEO
He fled to Moscow in 1963 when new evidence of his work for the Soviet Union arose... READ MORE›
RUSSIA MARKS 25 YEARS SINCE FAILED SOVIET COUP
Lyudmila Skryabina, a nanny from St. Petersburg, said she takes a vacation every year to come to Moscow for this reunion... READ MORE›
WEST REMEMBERS 1991 SOVIET COUP ANNIVERSARY FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS
In the Union Treaty, due to be signed on August 20 1991, Gorbachev managed to get signatories from only eight out of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics... READ MORE›
25 YEARS SINCE COLLAPSE OF USSR 25 YEARS OF GLOBAL INSTABILITY
The Americans would never have invaded Iraq, like they did in 2003, with the Soviet Union in existence... READ MORE›