To be published in America by Pegasus in September; $29.95 F or Oleg Lyalin it was a dream posting. After a dull stint in Klaipeda, on the Baltic coast, he was on his way to “swinging London” in 1969.

Emir Kusturica, the great Serbian director, hops to the other side of the camera to play KGB defector Vladimir Vetrov in the French film "Farewell," from French director Christian Carion. Starring ...

PARIS -- Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin.

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived ...

In 2006, Russian FSB (formerly KGB) defector Alexander Litvinenko was the victim of a rare and frightening poison: a tiny speck of polonium-210, delivered in a cup of tea, was enough to destroy his ...