Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the collapse of the USSR
without the threat of US force to repel Moscow’s aggression. It might seem odd Europe has never thought it needed to defend itself alone since the end of the Cold War. But their NATO alliance is founded on mutual benefits: it was behind Britain’s ...
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Newser on MSN'True Gentleman' of Chess Was Half of Cold War ShowdownBoris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American champion Bobby Fischer at the peak of the Cold War, has died. The International Chess Federation announced that Spassky died Thursday in Moscow at age 88.
Fresh possibilities have emerged for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with a change of power in Washington.
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s long-standing dictator, never got over the Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of the Cold ... World War I and leave Ukraine a vassal state. Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator and repeated Moscow ...
US-Russia ties and Ukraine war will be on the table as top diplomats from Moscow and Washington meet in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, while a concerned Europe remains in the shadows.
But it is the eastern flank of Europe has always shouted the loudest about Russia. History and geography means they have to make some noise. With Washington now talking about peace with Moscow, Ukraine’s acceptance, and a Europe that has lost its values, those in the east are shouting even louder.
American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.
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