When I learned from my friend that he would be producing a movie on Ronald Reagan’s life and that he wanted me for the role of Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, my ego thought "oh a ...

The much-decorated Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is all but forgotten in Russia. What will Putin's legacy be?

In a predictably rancorous debate, Joe Biden and Donald Trump tore into each other on issues including Jan. 6, Social Security, lawfare, Vladimir Putin, Evan Gershkovich, NATO, election results and . ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev may be restored to the facade of the Moscow apartment building where he lived, in a sign of nostalgia that has been ...

On this date in history: In 1918, an empty troop train rear-ended the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train in Ivanhoe, Ind., killing 53 circus performers and many animals. The circus train had stopped to ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was restored to the facade of his former apartment building on Thursday, a sign of nostalgia in line with President ...

But despite that momentary military success, the Soviet economy and political system continued to decay. Just a dozen years later the USSR collapsed and disintegrated, with its Russian successor state ...

LOS ANGELES — While recuperating from an assassination attempt in 1981, President Reagan wrote a heartfelt four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, asking if they could work together to ...

On this date in history: In 1918, an empty troop train rear-ended the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train in Ivanhoe, Ind., killing 53 circus performers and many animals. The circus train had stopped to ...