Nikolai Patrushev, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, believes that by next year, Ukraine “will completely cease to ...

Twenty-five years in power and Vladimir Putin has left Russia in a worse state, not better. He has sacrificed hundreds of ...

Will Putin’s reign outlast 2025? In an unpredictable time, all bets are off. The Newsday app makes it easier to access ...

Newly-declassified files show notorious double agent refused ‘insane’ order to follow fellow spies Burgess and Maclean to ...

According to the former KGB officer, who for many years was in ... individuals likely to deliver or disseminate information. Then as now in Putin's Russia, Moscow saw the media as a powerful ...

Newly declassified files show the moment the notorious Cambridge double agent finally confessed to his treachery.

On returning from East Germany, Putin left the KGB and became one of Sobchak’s lieutenants, soon in the key role of managing the new mayor of Leningrad’s vast city property portfolio.

But what if Putin believes he’s God or at least godlike? Blasphemy isn’t a hard sell for an old KGB hand, and delusion is right up the alley for a tyrant who’s held power for 25 years.

But what if Putin believes he’s God or at least godlike? Blasphemy isn’t a hard sell for an old KGB hand, and delusion is right up the alley for a tyrant who’s held power for 25 years.

“Why stand in his way?” That strong leader was a political unknown: a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be marking a quarte ...

Russian spies call Putin’s go-to technique for manipulating foreign leaders “reflexive control.” This is KGB parlance for a well-honed method of deceiving individuals, or groups of powerful ...

Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha ...