When he saw a group of Soviet soldiers on the street in East Berlin, Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Irv Pankey had an ...

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Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that is why in today's Russian ideological labyrinth, in which chauvinism is ...

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Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

Location is everything. Kharkiv is just 40km (25 miles) from Russia, once a vital trading partner of Ukraine but now the country’s bitterest enemy. Lviv sits 70km from prosperous Poland, gateway to ...

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Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

The world is entering an unmapped era of nuclear risk. The answer is not new explosive tests, but a coordinated campaign with allies to maximize deterrence while working to establish new norms against ...

The crisis in the German and European automotive and supplier industries is assuming catastrophic proportions.

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