During post-Soviet, Georgia's steadfast efforts to move closer to Western institutions, including NATO and EU, have been source of tension in its relations with Russia. ..…

In my own career, I worked from 1990 to January 1993 at the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House as Director of Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. ..…

The Saudis famously supported anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan alongside the United States, including one Saudi citizen by the name of Osama bin Laden. ..…

The agreement signed by President Reagan and Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev defused rapidly escalating Cold War crisis over the two countries growing deployments of land-based, nuclear-capable missiles Europe, with U.S stationing missiles in countries including then-West Germany, and USSR deploying them..…

In the half of the century, United States and Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale, that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than American and Chinese economies are now. ..…

Blaming new arrivals for the government's shock in former East Germany, Nazi violence spiked, targeting immigrants from Turkey, Vietnam, Angola and Mozambique, and asylum seeker from Balkans and Soviet Union.. ..…

The pact between U.S and Soviet Union, Russia's nation, eliminated all missiles with range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and has been seen as symbol of disarmament efforts by the major powers. ..…

After decades of repression and persecution under the officially atheist Soviet regime, the resurgent Orthodox Church has developed a close relationship with the Kremlin. ..…

Freedom of religion, freedom of sexuality, freedom for women and men to divorce and in all other aspects of marriage, the right to abortion all these and more were granted by October Revolution and Soviet government.. ..…

Back in the 1980s during the Soviet-Afghan War, the Afghan jihadists did not spring up spontaneously out of nowhere. The Western powers with the help of Saudi money and Pakistan’s intelligence agencies trained and armed the erstwhile “freedom fighters” against their archrival the former..…

Dark forces in the US assassinated Jack Kennedy for transforming from warrior to peacemaker, favoring rapprochement with Soviet Russia, and disarmament to save the world from immolation along with opposing Pax Americana enforced dominance. . ..…

As a clandestine force within the ranks of the Turkish state, Gladio was suspected of being an independently operated “stay-behind force” meant to combat accused communists and other supposed subversives in the case of a war with the Soviet Union. ..…

Bush were among the original thinkers, leaders who opened relations with China and oversaw the peaceful collapse of Soviet Union, respectively. ..…

Wit was also involved in US-Soviet arms control negotiations, and recalls that during those negotiations both the United States and the Soviet Union continued to produced new weapons that were to be covered by the agreement. ..…

Notes . [1] Tracing Islamic State’s weapons supply chain: . . [2] The Pentagon’s $2.2 billion Soviet arms pipeline to Syria: . . [3] Mark Curtis’ book review, Secret Affairs: How Britain Colluded with Radical Islam? ..…

In the past, Soviet communist propaganda efforts waged by Moscow were crude, ineffective, and often alienated their target audiences. ... Another major obstacle holding Europe back is rooted in the profound reticence of many citizens to share personal data, a legacy perhaps of the traumatic history..…