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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was once among Vladimir Putin's most trusted advisers but, as his military campaign in Ukraine falters, there may be a target on his back.

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing?

Unofficial reports and intelligence from the US has suggested that there is a secret second underground network, titled Metro-2, beneath the streets of Russian capital Moscow

In early 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize Soviet life were in full flower, I was on a journalistic exchange with a Russian newspaper — Moscow News — at the apex of the glasnost (“openness”) campaign.

Vladimir Putin's health is once again being brought under the spotlight after his latest public appearance showed him walking with a limp during a military exercise

When Mikhail Gorbachev walked into the room for our interview in Moscow, he brought with him the impressive aura of a man who was still a sitting president, a confident leader who was prepared to devote just a bit of his busy schedule to yet another ho-hum exercise of message…

After a three-day-long attempt to overthrow his presidency, Gorbachev returns to power as the collapse of Soviet communism continues at rapid pace, writes Michael Dobbs

Mikhail Gorbachev stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world