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Many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves suggest that Mitt Romney is stuck in a cold war mind-set.

President Barack Obama's "pivot" to China's neighborhood and the "reset" in relations with Russia have produced limited results for signature foreign policy initiatives designed to improved America's standing with its former Cold War rivals....

Mitt Romney is getting some heat from Dmitry Medvedev and House Speaker John Boehner for calling Russia the "No. 1 geopolitical foe" of the United States. The Russian president said today that Romney's comments, made during a CNN interview on Monday, are out of date. The speaker, meanwhile, said it's not right for anyone to criticize Obama or the United States while the president is traveling overseas.

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the communists, has died at 85.

When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space.

A trove of historic archive documents dating back to Catherine the Great that were stolen after the Soviet breakup were returned to Russia by the U.S. on Friday.

Japan needs to focus on the rise of China and not the Cold War threat of Russia in defining its security goals, according to new defense guidelines announced Friday.

The head of Russia's deep cover U.S. spying operations has betrayed the network and defected, a Russian paper said on Thursday, potentially giving the West one of its biggest intelligence coups since the end of the Cold War.

Two alleged spies admit they are Russian citizens living in U.S. with false identities, prosecutors say.

One of the suspects in an alleged Russian spy ring has admitted that he worked for Russia's intelligence service, federal prosecutors say in court documents.