For a quarter century, virtually every American president had made the same mistake, treating Russian leader Vladimir Putin as someone who shares the U.S. interest in a safer, more predictable ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 12. Check what happened ...

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as Yekaterinburg, in the Ural region of the Soviet Union. They were showing symptoms of ...

The building was considered the ultimate in taste for the period after the Civil War ...

In 1869, a group of prospectors led by Montreal mining engineer Thomas McFarlane discovered a rich vein of galena near Prince Arthur's Landing on Lake Superior, which later became the Silver Islet ...

In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait Gallery. The museum is dedicated to telling the stories of individuals who have shaped ...

Russia was there once. At a time when Russia was moving towards democracy, then- Russian President Boris Yeltsin was invited to join the G-7 in 1997, making the group the G-8.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin marveled at the thousands of products available in 1989 — more, he said, than top Soviet leaders could access — and the lack of long lines, an ever-present ...

20.In 1992, President George H. W. Bush held a press conference with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the Rose Garden.

Brown complained that I “even went so far as to minimize America’s security obligations under the Budapest Memorandum of ...