Brezhnev replied, "Ya znayu (I know)." Tanaka pressed him again by saying, "I want you to confirm once more that the four islands are part of the 'problems.'" Brezhnev nodded and said, "Da (Yes)." ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty.” To wit, once the Communist system has been ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...

Viewers were fortunate to see the 2024 Armenian film ‘Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev" at the International Film Festival of Kerala 2024. The film, which faced challenges in Russia and received little ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no ...

Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence ...

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early 1968 Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 1. /TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...