By doing so, the United States is condoning Russia’s subversion of the postwar Europe that America helped create and secure. The parties Russia favors are hostile to the European Union, opposed to higher military spending and receptive to Russia’s arguments about the recklessness of NATO expansion and the need to assert right-wing Christian values.

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Donald Trump seems either unaware or unconcerned that Vladimir Putin’s plan is to weaken the United States too.

In seeking an accord with U.S., Beijing wants to avoid becoming isolated like the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was confirmed by the International Chess ...

In a world where the United States is aligned with Russia and against Europe, Russia wins and we lose, Chicago Tribune columnist Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.