At 29, he won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting. He later became a conservative speechwriter, supplying memorable phrases for the country’s 40th president.

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course.

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He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

A celebrated local talent brings a captivating collection inspired by Sligo’s landscapes to the heart of the community. Conor Gallagher, originally from Sligo, is a graphic designer and artist ...

We were, to be sure, a bit enamored — first with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In retrospect, it is unclear which was more mystifying ...

Ukraine struck Russia using US-made long-range Atacms missiles for the first time in November, with the Russian ministry of defence confirming an attack on its soil had taken place over the ...

“Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall,” as Ronald Reagan said. Even in the post-Soviet era, it was the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, who warned in 2012 that Russia was “without question ...

In 1991, when hard-line communists staged a coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, there were frightening hours when no one knew who was in charge of over 30,000 nuclear weapons ...