FREXIT: LE PEN PROMISES TO TAKE FRANCE OUT OF EU & NATO

Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front and a candidate for the 2017 presidential elections, is known for her Euroscepticism and anti-immigrant views... 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›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

HITLERS WORLD MAY NOT BE SO FAR AWAY

As Hitler himself knew, there was a political alternative to ecological panic and state destruction the pursuit of agricultural technology at home rather than Lebensraum abroad... READ MORE›

CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT

Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... READ MORE›

IN THE ERA OF DONALD TRUMP, GERMANS DEBATE A MILITARY BUILDUP

The NATO deployment marks what analysts describe as Germany's most ambitious military operation near the Russian border since the end of the Cold War... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'

The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... 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›

POLAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER PROPOSES FORMING ARMY OUT OF THE SYRIAN MEN ARRIVING IN EUROPE

"If there are hundreds of thousands of young Syrians coming to Europe then we can create an army," said Mr Waszczykowski ..... 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›

UNHAPPY RUSSIANS NOSTALGIC FOR SOVIET-STYLE RULE - STUDY

Former states under Soviet Union from Estonia to Mongolia also covered by findings that 'happiness gap' between eastern and western Europe persists... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'

Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA

At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›

NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA

I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›

PUTIN STARTS WAR GAME ON NATO FRONTIER ALARMING A WARY EUROPE

That estimate includes joint exercises in Kaliningrad, Russia's nuclear-armed enclave on the Baltic Sea that's nestled between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS

MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›

POLISH LEADERS HAIL ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOPS

We waited for decades' Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops... READ MORE›

CZECH REPUBLIC CRITICIZED FOR MARKING MIGRANTS WITH NUMBERS

This incident shows how certain countries in Europe have been hit completely off guard, he said... READ MORE›

EU WILL HIT POLAND WITH DEADLINE TO REVERSE CURBS ON JUDICIAL FREEDOM

The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, said on Saturday that Budapest would fight to defend Poland... READ MORE›

RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND

The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›

TREASURE SEEKERS HUNT NAZI GOLD IN POLAND

WALBRZYCH Poland The gold diggers have arrived here in Lower Silesia... READ MORE›

'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2

Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›

Soviet submarine sightings caused Cold War security alerts in Sweden in the 1980s... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA

Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... 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›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

US AND POLAND IN TALKS OVER WEAPONS DEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE

An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of Nato forces in Poland and the Baltic states... READ MORE›