On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

The UK is experiencing socio-economic conditions reminiscent of a Soviet-style collapse. Sudden loss of trust in institutions ...

Team USA receives no federal money, so athletes don’t have to worry about funding being pulled. Many countries’ governments have entire sports ministries and spend large sums of money to make their ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States says her country is ready to make a peace deal, pushing back on President Trump’s remarks this week suggesting Kyiv was to blame for stalled negotiations with ...

While the U.S. is on top of the overall Olympic medal count, it is not the country that dominates winter sports like the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy.

After World War II there were millions of refugees displaced by the war. The subsequent scramble for control of Eastern ...

Find yourself at a bus stop in the UK, and there's a decent chance you'll share it with some wads of chewing gum and a bit of scrawled graffiti, sat on an uncomfortable bench designed to stop unhoused ...

Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Russia has cut a substantially diminished figure on the international stage.

For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the world that the United States built after the Cold War. In ...

A fter World War II, peace-loving Sweden began working on a nuclear bomb to stave off a feared Soviet invasion. But in the ...