Generally, Khrushchev - a man of the people and not a very diplomatic person - liked to speak his mind. ... Read more: 10 quotes about the Russian soul that you need to know.

It’s official, Crimea is Russian. In the words of Vladimir Putin, “In people’s hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an inseparable part of Russia.” Indeed Russia said that in Sunday ...

Khrushchev would have thought that Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president who oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union that led to Ukraine and Russia becoming separate states, should have claimed ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, it’s striking to contrast how two Russian leaders — Nikita Khrushchev and Vladimir Putin — have spoken about nuclear weapons.

Timothy Naftali talked about the book he co-wrote with Aleksandr Fursenko, [Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary], published by W.W. Norton. He also talked about U.S ...

Khrushchev comes across as a flawed but surprisingly sympathetic figure—a Russian leader who anticipated Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and who weeps upon learning of JFK’s assassination.