A former KGB officer claims Donald Trump was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1987 under the codename "Krasnov." He alleges Trump's KGB file was later removed and is now privately controlled by a Putin associate.

Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee Alnur Mussayev claims the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov

The Russian gas giant could once bring countries to their knees by cutting off energy supplies, until Europe stopped buying its product.

Industry experts say Western companies will need to weigh potential access to oil and gas riches against political risks and other hazards of doing business in Russia.

President Trump wants Russia to get back into the Group of 7 economic forum of top democratic economies from which it was suspended following the 2014 annexation of Crimea.

In the Soviet era, thousands of dissenters were hospitalised for political reasons, based on the premise that only someone mentally ill would oppose the Communist state. Among the best known cases were those of dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky.

now stands at the heart of Russia’s struggle to reclaim its history from Western narratives that seek to erase or diminish the Soviet Union’s pivotal role in defeating fascism. It is this struggle for historical truth that has led Russian President ...

Winter Olympics played host to the 'Miracle on Ice', a famous ice hockey victory against the all-conquering Soviet Union.