Tag: Cold War

The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has warned that civilisation could be on the brink of destruction after the end…

Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Russian dissident who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced-labour camps and psychiatric hospitals until 1976,…

A Russian commission has recommended President Vladimir Putin pardon a 64-year-old Norwegian jailed for spying, amid hopes of a spy…

Leipzig, East Germany’s second city, held a candle-lit memorial on October 9 when approximately 70,000 residents marched past the headquarters…

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…