Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre ...

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Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

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I was 6 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine stepped into a new era of democracy, free speech and expanded ...

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The very messiness of definition and outcome in Korea has contemporary resonance, given the difficulty of imagining what a ...

Mark Rutte had an unenviable task at the Hague summit this week. The Nato secretary-general had to work with diverging ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Alexander Mogilny, a trailblazer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1989 to join the Buffalo Sabres and later developed into one of the most electrifying talents in NHL history, has been elected to ...