Deseret News archives: Soviet Union traded a pilot for a spy on this day in 1962
On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...
Russia’s shrinking world: The war in Ukraine and Moscow’s global reach
With its focus on war with its neighbor, Russia has taken its eyes off the ball elsewhere. As a result, its position is much ...
Russian TV Likens Trump's America to Late-Stage USSR: 'Inevitable Collapse'
Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
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Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself
In whatever corner of hell where he now resides, old Joe Stalin must be smiling at the alacrity with which Donald Trump’s ...
Trump says US is making progress with Russia, declines to discuss talks with Putin
President Donald Trump is expected to introduce new 25% tariffs on Monday on all steel and aluminium imports into the U.S., ...
Immigrants sue ICE over alleged ‘Russian Detention & Deterrence Scheme’
“In violation of a longstanding [Department of Homeland Security] directive precluding detention of asylum seekers except in ...
This Fort Worth native joined about 90 African Americans who fought in Spain’s civil war
Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed ...
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As Ukraine Fights, Echoes of Historic Meetings in Yalta and Helsinki Abound
On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.