For years, rumors have swirled about Vladimir Putin’s declining health, with speculation ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s ...

Revolution, Meir Abramovich Trilisser, the forerunner of the KGB, introduced the “illegals” as a weapon into an ...

In Russia, it would recall the transition of the KGB director, Yuri Andropov, to general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982. In post-Soviet Russia, it would suggest the ascendancy of ...