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.

"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 ...

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 ...

We rely on our readers to fund our journalism. If you like what we do, please subscribe. “In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern Western ...