When Lord Robertson was asked to co-write a strategic review of Britain’s defence, he had one slightly peculiar objective.

Trump's seeming astonishment at Putin shows a reassuring horror at mass slaughter but also an innocence of knowledge about ...

An evidently unprepared Obama administration made no serious protest of Putin's seizure of Crimea and occupation of part of ...

When Boris Yeltsin was serving as Russia's first post-Soviet Union, post-communist president during the 1990s, optimists were ...

Had the US Navy built its originally planned fleet of 29 Seawolf-class submarines in the 1990s, instead of just three, America’s undersea dominance today would likely be significantly greater. -These ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

Boris Yeltsin will be indelibly linked to the creation of democracy in Russia. By facing down the tanks outside the Russian Parliament, he showed that popular opinion could conquer authoritarianism.

Yeltsin was a charismatic and unconventional politician who appeared to relish political drama and theatrical public appearances such as his most famous speech, made from the top of a tank during ...

Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

FILE - Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian Parliament building in Moscow, Russia on Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. The Soviet prime ...

Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law has quit his role as a ... In addition, several thousand Russian military vehicles - including tanks, aircraft and mobile artillery units - have been destroyed in ...