Sep 8th, 2008 · "This is an improbable but true tale." So beginsThe Lost Spy, Andrew Meier's chronicle of Cy Oggins, an American who spied for Joseph Stalin's secret service — and was probably murdered by the Soviets.
Sep 4th, 2008 · Vice President Dick Cheney was in Georgia Thursday signaling Washington's support for the former Soviet republic. In a statement, he decried what he called Russia's "illegitimate" attempt to redraw Georgia's borders by force.
Sep 3rd, 2008 · Literary critics feared that after the Soviet collapse, the easy availability of popular romance novels and thrillers would seduce Russian readers away from deeper works. Now they attribute a literary revival to the country's new authoritarianism.
Aug 29th, 2008 · A separatist enclave in Moldova could be the next place Russia will try to assert its control over the former Soviet republics.
Aug 28th, 2008 · Russia is facing international isolation over this month's attacks in Georgia, and the country failed to enlist the support it wanted from China and a group of former Soviet republics in central Asia. Moscow has accused NATO of "battleship diplomacy."
Aug 27th, 2008 · Yuri Nosenko, who died earlier this month at the age of 81, was a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. in the 1960s. Author Peter Earley recounts Nosenko's story, including his secret incarceration and interrogation for three years.
Aug 18th, 2008 · As NATO meets to consider a response to Russia's military actions in Georgia, there is renewed attention on another former Soviet republic that's also on Russia's radar: Ukraine. Some Ukrainians fear that they could be next in a Russian drive to re-assert control over the nations on its borders.
Aug 18th, 2008 · Sylvester Stallone, who destroyed Soviet rivals in Rocky and Rambo is being paid a reported $1 million to sell Russian vodka. He will advertise "Russian Ice" vodka under the slogan: "There is a bit of Russian in all of us."