Take a look behind the scenes at one of the more daring undertakings by a sports journalist that not only proved successful but paved the way for some of the greatest moments in the history of the ...

ProfileDetained in a penal colony in Mordovia, the 70-year-old historian, who specializes in the Stalin regime's crimes, is one of Russia's oldest political prisoners. His crime? Refusing to accept ...

It took about ten minutes for him to drive to “Smile”, so it was quickly done, and so was what he had to do there, which was to chalk a thick horizontal line above the postal symbol on the mailbox at ...

An ex-KGB man follows the evidence into the shadows where police sketches don’t match suspects and allies end up dead. Show more A former KGB investigator steps forward, risking everything to get to ...

Putin retired from the KGB in 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed. Vladimir Putin began his career as a mid-ranking KGB officer in the late 1970s He was posted to Dresden in 1985, working undercover ...

When a major Russian spy defects to the West, the CIA is usually so delighted that it can hardly wait to tell the story to the world press. The resulting headlines are expected to be a damaging blow ...

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Throughout 2025, a rumor circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited as an "asset" by Russian intelligence in the late 1980s and given the codename "Danila Krasnov," following ...

Everything you wanted to know about the USSR's notorious security apparatus. From its inception and until the end of the Soviet Union, the KGB was a prominent force in Soviet politics and society. Its ...

With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. Knocking ...

The 21st century is shaping up to be a new Age of Dictators. None is scarier, future history books may well judge, than Russian President Vladimir Putin. His war with Ukraine is a gambler’s war. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S.