Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...

It is the psychological warfare that Russian nuclear signalling has always sought to achieve—not just military victory, but ...

American critics and Turkish propagandists in the Washington think tank and lobbying world continue to criticize the Russian troop presence in Armenia as evidence that Armenia is a Russian satrapy […] ...

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...

Mikhail Gorbatchev knew this better than most. In his landmark Murmansk speech in October 1987, the General Secretary called for the Arctic as a "zone of peace". The policy included establishing a ...

In June 1946 with millions dead and much of Europe still in ruin, top secret meetings were being held in Washington and London to prepare for the unthinkable... the Third World War.

Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted this week that Russia has tested a nuclear-powered super torpedo, the Poseidon, that was unstoppable and more powe ...

In 'Motherland', Russian-born American journalist Julia Ioffe shifts the spotlight to the women – from the revolutionary ...

On October 30, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the Department of War to begin nuclear weapons testing because “other countries are doing the same,” without specifying ...

Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate.

I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The ...