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North Korea’s Growing Role In Ukraine War Shows How Weak Russia Is
It was reported last week that North Korea plans to triple the number of troops fighting with Russia along the front lines in ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN13h
NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say
If Beijing moves against Taiwan, NATO might soon find itself in a two-front war with China and Russia — or so the alliance's ...
Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...
The Washington Post8mon
Nicholas Daniloff, reporter held in Moscow amid Cold War tussle, dies at 89
Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...
The National Interest on MSN18h
The Soviet Tu-4 Bomber Looked an Awful Lot Like the B-29 Stratofortress
The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...
HistoryExtra1d
The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...
Russia budget deficit reaches 2025 target level of 1.7% GDP in first half of year
Russia's budget deficit reached 3.69 trillion roubles ($46.89 billion), or 1.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), in the first ...
Time10mon
THE COLD WAR: Marriage in Moscow - TIME
A hen is not a bird, nor a woman a human being. —Russian saying When Alfred Hall was a proper, young cipher clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked ...
The Economist7d
In Putin’s Moscow, a summer of death and distraction
Summers in Russia are short. Come autumn, the stages will be dismantled and the flowers removed. No one knows what next ...
NBC News3mon
Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink - NBC News
Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink These overtures are part of a rapid warming between Moscow and Washington during Trump’s ...
Perfect Storm — how the west has wrestled with Moscow’s oligarchs and oil barons
Russia’s oil exports fund the Kremlin’s splurge on defence and trickle into ordinary Russians’ pocketbooks. The technocrats ...
The Financial Times2mon
The World of the Cold War — timely reading in an age of US, Russia and China tensions - Financial Times
The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok, Pelican £25, 544 pages. Charles Clover is FT’s security & defence correspondent and a former Moscow bureau chief.