The concept of Russians as a nation divided calls for centralized approach to language as tool for keeping these people's links to Mother Russia alive. ..…

West seems powerless to stop the aggression, and former Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev declares that the world is on the brink of Cold War he blames West... ..…

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Law and Justice was on course to keep its ruling majority exit poll showed, victory likely to stoke concern about democratic standards in the largest former Soviet European Union state.. ..…

The US European Command said Monday that 37,000 forces, some 20,000 American troops, will partake Defender Europe-20 maneuvers. ..…

It's worth remembering that on January 1, 1989, few of even the most experienced European analysts imagined that, by December 31, Soviet Europe would have collapsed. ..…

Germany and USSR launched war against Poland September of 1939, Romania, and Baltic states across the following year.. ..…

It was lie so duplicitous, so all encompassing, that it would lead many Russians to see the agreement that ended the war as devastating and humiliating deception that was intended to clear the way for the US to surround defeat Soviet Union. ..…

SOFIA - Bulgaria lambasted World War Two exhibition organised by Russian Embassy marking the liberation of Eastern Europe from Nazism., saying the region had instead being subjected to century of repression by. ..…

To counter this potential threat and avoid the potential of facing anti- Soviet Europe, Moscow had to seek way out, in the face of imminent war.. ..…

The struggle for dominance expressed through proxy conflicts Korea, Vietnam and Middle East, dirty wars South and Central America, and in conflicts Africa. ..…

In total, more led by Germany, Italy and Japan, against Allies, led by France, Britain, United States, Soviet Union and China, and engulfed most of Europe and Asia in fire and death.. ..…

The in the deportation and killing of thousands from those areas, and paved the way for Soviet of Eastern Europe behind Iron Curtain after the war's end in 1945.. ..…

Jackson Hole Economic Symposium is the premier forum with attendance limited to 120 participants, including about 25 top Federal Reserve officers, 45 central bankers, 8 commercial bank CEOs, 5 national leaders, 25 academics and 12 CEOs gathering to discuss the US reserve currency's global economic impact.. ..…

Erik ) Zitser is Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, liaison to International Comparative Studies Program, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.. ..…

the Pact provided Nazis with raw materials which funded Nazi machine Europe.   By 1940, Stalin supplied Hitler's Germany with 900,000 tons of mineral oil, 100 tons of scrap iron, 500,000 tons of iron ore and other important minerals.  Soviet diplomats groveled before Führer order to ingratiate themselves. ..…

Across the board, people from countries on both sides of World War II ascribe inflated weight to their contribution to the effort, according to new research. ..…

Almost three-quarters of ago on August 9, 1945, United States dropped plutonium bomb called the. ..…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, announced February that the president intended to suspend U.S in Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and was beginning the process of U.S in six months. ..…

Soviet and post-Soviet Europe have had a different experience. To the east of the Iron Curtain, violence continued to be an important tool of power. ..…

The document outlining this diabolical military agenda had been released September 1945,  barely one month after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and two years before the onset of Cold War .. ..…

On April 10, 2019, at 10 p.m., fireworks lit up Moscow and gun salute thundered through the city. ..…

Banners displaying NATO logo are placed at the entrance of new NATO headquarters during the move to the new building, Brussels, Belgium, April 19, 2018... ..…

They pick them off one by one the political parties, the trade unions, the churches, the schools, the universities, the trade associations, even the sporting clubs and the kindergartens. ..…

But provocative U.S decision to walk away rather than make effort to bring Moscow back into compliance will undermine the security of both Europe and United States. . ..…

The Revolution Russia was considered by Bolsheviks as just the first step in kindling World Revolution and spreading Communism around the globe. ..…

Stalin would never have allowed weakening of Soviet forces in Far East if Soviet Richard Sorge had not reported that Japan was not preparing to attack Soviet Union in 1941. ..…

In the midst of deepening trade war with China, the US quick succession imposed sanctions against unit of China's Defense Ministry and its director for purchasing Russian military equipment and announced sale of US$330 in military equipment to Taiwan. ..…

The Hofburg Vienna,  home to OSCE's decision-making body, Permanent Council. © OSCE. ..…

Following its dedication, in 1947, man who had done Roosevelt Square survived Communist, Stalinist, anti- Soviet uprising, Communist revenge, Goulash Communism, and the 1989 triumph of democracy. ..…

In environment, far more war crimes are left untouched than are ever pursued in tribunals. ..…

Over time, I have had to face the fact that the US was not primarily responsible for defeating Germany -- Russians defeated Germany, and what's more, would have defeated them whether the Allies had landed France or not. ..…

When the year began, relations among countries were what they had been for forty years Europe, Soviet Union that maintained East European empire by force, and America that assumed superpower responsibilities vis-à-vis its allies NATO and Asia. ..…

Steven Pifer is senior fellow in Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative,   Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and Center on United States and Europe at Brookings Institution, and William J. ..…

Human waves of East Germans flowing through Czechoslovakia and Hungary to in West riveted the attention of Czechs and Slovaks, opening their minds to the potential for mass action and the impotence of their security police. ..…

Hungary indicted Hungarian Bela Biszku, 92, for war crimes committed against Hungarian patriots during the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.. ..…

The army command would have preferred to stage invasion, and the sheer size of Australian continent would require 10 divisions — number they would not be able to produce while most of their troops were stationed China. ..…

In General Election Debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, I had discussion with my Amy the day before I came here to ask her what the important issue was. ..…

Yet NATO survived the collapse of Soviet Union and expanded, of Eastern Europe and even Baltic republics that had been part of Russian empire for more than 200 years. ..…

But instead of sinking into obsolescence, NATO has become more important than ever, European unity proves illusive and United Nations falters... ..…

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — President Bush reaffirmed to NATO allies Monday that United States would keep military forces Europe, Western alliance had to help provide the architecture to end the division of Europe and of Germany.. ..…

Four hundred seventy-two years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church Wittenberg, launching Reformation that remade the political face of Europe.. ..…

The struggle to defend Western Europe is not over, despite the seeming end of Cold War II, except we're coming back. ..…

While Yugoslav leaders promised Germans to remain aligned with Axis Hitler viewed the coup as personal insult and vowed to make Yugoslavia pay, diverting German Panzer divisions from Poland and Romania to invade Yugoslavia and Greece. ..…