Even those who do not approve of him generally consider Vladimir Putin as highly successful in foreign policy. These successes include Moscow’s taking South Ossetia and Abkhazia away from Georgia in ...

These traditional Matryoshka, or Russian nesting, dolls bearing the faces of Russian president Vladimir Putin and former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin are seen in a souvenir shop in Kiev, Ukraine, on ...

When I learned from my friend that he would be producing a movie on Ronald Reagan’s life and that he wanted me for the role of Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, my ego thought "oh a ...

Andrew C. Kuchins is senior fellow and director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Is Vladimir Putin having his Brezhnev moment? President Obama’s ...

BOMBS, SHMOMBS . . . what's for lunch? Such were the thoughts that drove the leader of the Evil Empire at the height of the cold war. A newly published diary underlines the astonishingly pedestrian ...

Saless is the publisher of the book originally released in 2021. It has been translated by Bijan Ashtari. Leonid Brezhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a term of leadership ...

A new leader comes to the Kremlin in a time of chaos, replacing a bumbling and erratic predecessor. He loves to hunt and drive fast cars. He ushers in an era of stability and relative prosperity, ...

AFP/EAST-NEWS Leonid Brezhnev, born 110 years ago, on Dec. 19, 1906, was head of Soviet Union for 18 years. The long Brezhnev era is now considered either an era of tranquil stability or a period of ...

The president’s insistence on projecting good health echoes the fatal denial of late Soviet leaders. In the late 1970s, after suffering a series of strokes and other medical crises that left him ...