Russia itself formally recognized Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea multiple times: through the 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha ...

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon ...

Cathy Newman: Trump is clearly becoming slightly exasperated with Putin. He put posts on Truth Social, sort of mocking him about his victory parade for World War II, for example. So does Trump now ...

Elizabeth Taylor hung out in its bar, world leaders were its guests, wars intruded. The Hotel Esplanade Zagreb has seen a lot ...

In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air ...

It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part ...

Within minutes, Khrushchev’s premature obituary flashed around the world. Nikita Khrushchev, of course, was not dead. Nor had Tass said he was. What, then, had happened? Achtung! By week’s end ...

And so in July of that year, Nikita Khrushchev arranged to have him arrested, denouncing him as an agent of international imperialism. Beria was tried in secret and found guilty. A Soviet general ...