Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy,

A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base is being revived once more for warfighting Russian vessels.

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.

He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which became a cultural proxy battle between the US and Russia during the Cold

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

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the U.S. jockey for influence in the "new world."

With world-beating museums and spectacular nature, Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis – remains surprisingly undiscovered

A directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio prompted the termination of IU’s Title VIII program, a research fellowship focused on sustaining expertise on countries in Eastern Europe and of the former Soviet Union.