Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

Russia’s oil exports fund the Kremlin’s splurge on defence and trickle into ordinary Russians’ pocketbooks. The technocrats ...

Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...

Summers in Russia are short. Come autumn, the stages will be dismantled and the flowers removed. No one knows what next ...

A hen is not a bird, nor a woman a human being. —Russian saying When Alfred Hall was a proper, young cipher clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked ...

Europe braces for Trump's arrival at the Nato summit with difficult questions over Iran and defence, following the 5% defence ...

Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink These overtures are part of a rapid warming between Moscow and Washington during Trump’s ...

The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok, Pelican £25, 544 pages. Charles Clover is FT’s security & defence correspondent and a former Moscow bureau chief.

Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...