Stalin’s daughter dies
The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Peters, who denounced communism after a Cold War defection worthy of a novel, has died in Wisconsin, USA
View ArticleIntrigue, treachery charges fly in fight for UN post
Accusations of threats, Cold War-style treachery and backstage attempts by Russia to punish a former Soviet ally are turning a routine election for a high-profile UN post into a bitter tussle.
View ArticleResolving conflict through the human dimension
Since the end of the Cold War, the surge in conflicts globally has made it necessary for numerous actor to get involved in th process of resolution.
View ArticleChina: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’ player dies
Chinese table tennis player Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in what became known as the “ping pong diplomacy” that helped thaw frosty Cold War relations between the United States and China, has died aged...
View ArticleWalesa: No apology for anti-gay remarks
Lech Walesa, the man who led Poland to freedom in its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Bloc, is refusing to apologize for suggesting gay Polish politicians should “sit behind a wall” in the country’s...
View ArticleXi’s Moscow visit shows Cold War thaw
China’s President Xi Jinping’s choice of Moscow as his first foreign capital visit is being seen by analysts as a symbolic move that demonstrates the increasing interdependence of the one-time Cold War...
View ArticleXi Jinping’s first state visit to old foe
China’s President Xi Jinping’s choice of Moscow as his first foreign capital visit is being seen by analysts as a symbolic move that demonstrates the increasing interdependence of the one-time Cold War...
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Obama: no Cold War for Africa
US President Barack Obama has played down talk of a great power rivalry in Africa, welcoming investment by the likes of China and rejecting the idea of Cold War-style proxy economic duel.
View ArticleCuban Missile Crisis II? Not exactly
The bizarre case of a North Korea-bound ship being seized and searched following a violent struggle on the Panama Canal sounds like a deleted scene from the Cold War.
View ArticleINTERACTIVE
International adoptions steadily rose since the 1950s before exploding in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War and the opening of China and Russia. After peaking in 2004 with more than 45,000...
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What’s in a handshake?
The handshake between US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela could provide an opening for an easing of ties between the Cold War foes,...
View ArticleHow the Iron Curtain collapsed
I was a young traveling correspondent in the closing months of the Cold War, stunned like any other visitor from the West at the cruel tyranny that had endured for so many years in so many countries,...
View ArticleU.S. journalist kicked out of Russia
Veteran correspondent David Satter says he does not know why he is the first U.S. journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War.
View ArticleCold War-style conflict hits Crimea
It’s a conflict culled from the suspicion-filled pages of the Cold War.
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Ukraine mobilises after Putin’s ‘declaration of war’
Ukraine mobilised for war on Sunday and Washington threatened to isolate Russia economically after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade his neighbour in Moscow’s biggest...
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Crimea votes to join Russia amid Western outrage
Crimeans voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of joining former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold...
View ArticleFrance’s far right leader blames EU for new ‘cold war’
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, blamed the EU for declaring a new Cold War on Russia that would hurt all concerned.
View ArticleEmpire building is not a new Cold War
The full scale of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new imperial ambition was revealed recently when he referred to the southern and eastern territories of Ukraine as Novorossiya (New Russia).
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Eastern Ukraine vote goes ahead amid violence
Separatist rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule in east Ukraine yesterday and fighting flared anew in a conflict that has raised fears of civil war and pitched Russia and the West into...
View Article5 lessons for a new Cold War
Russia looks set to slice off a part of Ukraine and keep it for itself.
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