In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet ... jubilee medals "80 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" to participants of the WWII ...

Texas native and Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Colonel George Andrew Davis Jr, declared Missing in Action 73 years ago, ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary—Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died. She was 103. Keleti died on January 2 in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported.

On Feb. 12, 1964, a little more than 10 weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a film called Seven ...

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With the 4 Nations Face-Off beginning Wednesday, here’s a brief, informal history of international hockey. Disclaimer: Hockey players do not “represent their country.” The armed forces do. Grab a gun, ...

Then the Finns fought against the Soviet ... medal enclosed in a framed 1942 proclamation by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the commander of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II who ...

(Pvt. H. Miller / AP) Some 6 million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust — the mass murder of Jews and other groups before and during World War II. Soviet Red Army troops ...