Tag: Cold War

Germany’s parliament has voted to transfer secret East German police files to the Federal Archives, despite concerns that they will…

Thirty years ago this week Hungarian border guards allowed hundreds of East German citizens to cross into Austria in the…

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the Kremlin would not deploy new missiles as long as the US did the…

Austria has issued an international arrest warrant for a Russian on suspicion of espionage and working for Russia’s notorious GRU…

A Russian television network is working on a version of the hit HBO mini-series Chernobyl, which will point to CIA…

Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu has been charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the aftermath of the…

Russia has held a rock concert to make 30 years since the end of the Afghan war as part of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s old Stasi identity card has been discovered after 28 years in the Dresden archives of the…

Russian human rights campaigner and Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva (pictured) has died aged 91. Russia’s human rights council chief Mikhail…

Austria has launched a probe into an army colonel suspected of spying for Russia over decades.   Chancellor Sebastian Kurz,…

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says European states are unlikely to deploy more nuclear weapons in response to an alleged…

Russia has threatened a renewed arms race after Donald Trump threatened to pull the US out of a 1980s nuclear…

The Labour Party and family of the early 1980s party leader Michael Foot (pictured) have dismissed reports that he was…

Soviet soldiers were ready to attack US and German “troops” during the 1968 invasion of the former Czechoslovakia before they…

Bulgarian soldiers who took part in crushing the 1968 Prague Spring under Soviet orders refuse to regard themselves as aggressors….