Leonid Brezhnev

Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, French, Russian Spies, Espionage, Russia KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Angelina Jolie Salt, Communist, Anna Chapman, Angelina Jolie, Anna Fermanova, Cold War, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

L'affaire Farewell tells the riveting true tale of a disenchanted KGB colonel who gives state secrets to a French businessman working in Russia.

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Doctor of the Heart: A Book Review

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, Physicians, Healthcare Reform, Leonid Brezhnev, Healthcare, Golda Meir, Cardiology, Books News
Arthur Rosenfeld

It's not every day that a novelist gets to review his own father's memoir. The publication of Doctor of the Heart is perfectly timed amidst dissecting scrutiny of our national healthcare system.

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Top-Secret Reagan Letters to Soviet Leaders Now Online

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Jason Saltoun-Ebin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Politics News
Jason Saltoun-Ebin

As the letters show, Reagan and Gorbachev were instead discussing how to minimize the threat of nuclear war by first reducing and then eliminating all nuclear weapons.

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Raised at Fidel's Knees, a Son of the Revolution Tells Us What's Behind the Curtain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Leonid Brezhnev, Velasco Alvarado, Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolution, Juan Juan Almeida, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Juan Juan Almeida brushed up against power and got scratched, without it doing him much good. His book, Memoirs of an Unknown Cuban Guerrilla, is the story of a brazen witness.

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'Littlest Refusenik' On Kennedy: 'He Saved My Life'

CNN | Elizabeth Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Legacy, Soviet Russia, Soviet Jews, Leonid Brezhnev, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- She was called "the littlest refusenik," one of the many Soviet Jews denied permission to leave the Soviet Union becaus...

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