He was upset at the 1960 Olympic Games but still took the bronze medal. Four years later, in Tokyo, he cleared the same height as his rival Valery Brumel of the USSR, but was relegated to second place ...

the best Ter-Ovanesyan was able to manage was 26 ft. 1 in. The Russian shook his head, walked over to talk to High Jumper Valery Brumel. Somehow that seemed to give him strength, and he stalked ...

It turns out that Coristine’s grandfather was Valery Martynov, a KGB lieutenant colonel who volunteered to spy for United States intelligence in 1982. Unfortunately, he was unmasked by the CIA ...

Aquarter of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world ...

In a new age of great-power politics, the Western Balkans might seem like an afterthought. But given the region's centrality to three larger geopolitical trends, it could well play an outsize role in ...

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