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WHEN the news got out that I was going back to Russia to challenge Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor in the 2008 presidential election, an English friend of mine called. (I […]

'I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business I together.' This famous endorsement of JL the Soviet leader, from Mrs Thatcher, convinced the world that he was a fundamentally different [...]

The international stage is dominated by two men this March: Muammar Gaddafi, fighting like mad for the survival of his regime, and Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrated around the world on his [...]

Labour leaders, past and present, will be wishing this week that Anatoly Chernyaev had not been such an assiduous diarist. Along with thousands of documents left in the archives after [...]

Nato is taken more seriously in Russia than in the West. Here, Nato is largely seen as a quaint anachronism; a ruse by which European countries save money on defence [...]

What do we know about the new head of al-Qa'eda, Ayman al-Zawahiri? Not very much. We know he's a former 'emir' of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad who spent three years [...]

The article focuses on the role of former U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy during the Cold War in the Soviet Union. He was the senator often contacted by the Soviets during the crisis. In his new book, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," Paul Kengor quotes from a top-secret Soviet State Security Committee report about their contacts with Kennedy. The article provides more top-secret documents from Soviet archives that tell about Kennedy's further contacts with the Soviet Union, including his meeting with Vadim Zagladin, then official with the International Department of the Soviet Communist party.