Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by ...

Paralysis up top. Waiting for people to die seems to have been the main occupation in the last years of Brezhnev's rule, particularly at the heart of the system. A friend of my wife's from her stay in ...

The flat where the former Russian leader and head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, lived is to be sold at auction in an attempt to cash in on the taste of the wealthy for the heirlooms of Soviet power. It ...

The myth of Andropov as a liberal is one that was dug out of dusty Soviet store-rooms at the turn of the millennium, when Putin felt the need to explain to society why the secret services were ...

In June 1999, Vladimir Putin laid a bouquet of flowers on Yury Andropov's grave to mark the 85th anniversary of the late Soviet leader and longtime KGB chief's birth. Shortly after he became Russia's ...

On Sept. 18, 2017, a hero of humanity, Stanislav Petrov, died. Hero of humanity is a mild description for Petrov. On Sept. 26, 1983, Soviet air defense officer, Stanislav Petrov, was on duty at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors at an exhibition dedicated to the former Communist leader and KGB head, Yuri Andropov, in Moscow, on July 6, 2014 ...

Right from the death of Stalin, there were what I would call tectonic shifts in the structure of the party elite. Stalinists were desperately trying to cling on to power, and were busy defending the ...

Over the last week-and-a-half I’ve gotten an overwhelming number of inquiries relating to the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Why me? Because of my report back in 2006 of Kennedy’s confidential offer to ...

Eduard Pesov/Sputnik From oppressing the uprising in Hungary to anti-corruption crusades and attempts to save the Soviet economy – Yuri Andropov (1914 – 1984) led an interesting life. Born on June 15, ...