“Now everyone can see a variety of Russian launchers, intercontinental ballistic missile mines, command posts, and secret landfills with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel.”

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces on Google Maps removing blur for Russian military sites

Putin's attempt to undermine Ukraine backfired ... due to corruption.

Newly declassified documents show that the British government intended to save the last Romanov.

An excerpt from To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and his Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks, recently published by Pegasus Books.

Reviews of Cold Warriors and The Girl from the Hermitage.

On spy films, summits, and finding a way to live together.

A court case in the city of Perm unveils a story combining three quintessentially Soviet things: bathhouses, religious oppression, and an (extremely) intrusive surveillance state.

“I also don’t know that they would be able to work in the President’s administration. I do not think there is a division in the administration that deals with sports nutrition.”

– Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov

Death comes in many guises in the two mystery/suspense novels we review in this issue.

Cold War nostalgia is dripping from the recently aired Russian miniseries "The Optimists: Caribbean Season."

Get out your aluminum foil hats, folks. It seems the Soviets got ESP down decades ago.

A couple in Kaliningrad has been jailed for posting a photo of their wedding.