Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

It was just a bit of mile-high saber rattling, but it showed that airline diplomacy is alive and well 50 years after the first breakthrough flights between the USSR and the USA signaled a brief ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991. On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the USSR, resigned from his post. Twenty five years after his resignation the ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...