Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the collapse of the USSR

without the threat of US force to repel Moscow’s aggression. It might seem odd Europe has never thought it needed to defend itself alone since the end of the Cold War. But their NATO alliance is founded on mutual benefits: it was behind Britain’s ...

Moscow has denigrated the United States’ leadership, economy and culture — but now things are changing amid a “revival” of Russia-U.S. relations.

By Guy FaulconbridgeRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “common sense” aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European powers which have rallied around Kyiv of seeking to prolong the conflict.

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American champion Bobby Fischer at the peak of the Cold War, has died. The International Chess Federation announced that Spassky died Thursday in Moscow at age 88.

But it is the eastern flank of Europe has always shouted the loudest about Russia. History and geography means they have to make some noise. With Washington now talking about peace with Moscow, Ukraine’s acceptance, and a Europe that has lost its values, those in the east are shouting even louder.

American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.