Zelensky trounced Poroshenko thanks to a near-universal name recognition, populist message, and slick social media campaign. . ... In the post-Soviet space, it isn’t so, because religious identity usually doesn’t say something important about you,” said Vyacheslav Likhachev of the..…

If you look back at the 20th century, whether you lived it or you want to read about it – you can look it up, as Casey Stengel used to say; he was a baseball manager – the three major episodes of détente, that is cooperation with Russia, then Soviet Russia, were Republican presidents,..…

At the root of the criticism was the assumption that the nuclear balance between Soviet Union and United States could remain stable if both sides adhered to the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. ..…

Six years after the of  NATO, on May 14, 1955,  the Warsaw Pact was born,  which included the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, German Democratic Republic, Romania, Hungary and Albania.  5. ..…