More than a decade after Ukraine’s pro-democracy EuroMaidan Revolution, the false — but persistent — claim that the movement ...
Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 ...
General Prigozhin, the head of the 25,000 strong Wagner mercenary group, withdrew from operations in the Ukraine and demanded ...
Telenko wrote: "58th Army of the Southern Military District, Ivan Popov, was one of the few competent Russian flag ranks. His ...
Former Chilean president Salvador Allende was warned by the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba that Chilean military officers were preparing a military coup against him, which was being ...
"We have challenges not only from the Russian Federation and possible escalation — we have big internal challenges. I received information that a coup d'etat will take place in our country on ...
He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of Georgia. In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the ...
is ousted in a coup by hardliners (Aug 19); The Soviet coup fizzles out. Mikhail Gorbachov resumes as President of USSR (Aug 21-22); Moscow grants independence to the Baltic States of Lithuania ...