In the spring of 1989, newspapers all over the world reported on one of the most unusual deals in history: the Soviet Union ...

Dutch historian Kees van der Pijl argued that a possible comprehensive peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine could "correct the catastrophic consequences" of the Soviet Union’s collapse ...

Soviet and American pilots flew the Alaska-Siberia Air Route to deliver combat planes halfway around the world ...

Let’s also talk about the word “land,” or “territory,” which the leaders gathered at the White House on Monday used a lot.

Putin has such an arrangement with Belarus and might be satisfied with a Ukraine that’s not fully sovereign, militarily weak and outside of NATO. At the Alaska summit, Putin not only mentioned Ukraine ...

On Aug. 1, 2025, the Office of the Historian published National Security Policy, 1985–1988 Part 1, which focused on President ...

Donald Trump could not find the president of Finland among the gathered European leaders at his White House summit on Ukraine ...

Promising severe consequences if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine and then ...

The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer By Daniel J. Flynn Encounter Books, 544 pages, $41.99 General George Marshall was called the organizer of America’s victory in the Second World War. Frank Meyer ...

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s ...

Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday.

Russia pledges to end its invasion against nebulous guarantees of the sort we’ve heard before.