By 1986, he had assumed a leadership role in the 8th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, where he was awarded two medals and the Order of the Red Star for his service.

Gorbachev carried out root-and-branch political (glasnost) and economic (perestroika) reforms to escape this grave situation. Gorbachev rolled back the USSR’s international commitments, which ...

Former Chief of the KGB, Alnur Mussayev. (Photo: Alnur Mussayev) Alnur Mussayev, a top official in the former USSR KGB, claimed in a Facebook post on Friday that the agency tried to recruit President ...

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

"It was in that year that our department recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump," Musayev wrote. He added that after being recruited by the KGB of the USSR, Trump ...

The loonie features Peterson playing a piano while musical notes from the closing bars of his song "Hymn to Freedom" float ... win for Team Canada over Team USSR. The toonie's inner core features ...

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Hitler believed the Soviets to be his natural ideological enemy and intended to conquer the country, enslave or exterminate the ‘subhuman’ native Slavic people.