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​Rev Dr William Morton, Church of Ireland

Thought for the week: We must seek to serve the Lord peacefully

Altamura Vodka that has now launched in the UK

Italian vodka praised for 'no gimmicks' reminded me of Russian secret

Alex Easton has said there is nothing unusual about deleting all election posts from his Facebook page.

Alex Easton deletes all election posts

Spy/Master is an atmospheric, complex thriller

Saturday TV choice: Spy/Master (BBC Four, 9pm)

1955 recruitment advertisement

Roamer: Our cold war sentinels on the lookout for Soviet intruders

Short of a miracle the Irish Sea border will stay, perhaps the greatest reverse in Northern Ireland’s place in the UK since its creation. Irreparable change has been imposed on NI so that nationalists can continue to pretend there’s no land frontier

Owen Polley: No hype or appeals for ‘optimism’ will alter fact of sea border

US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy leaves the Saint Stephen Martyr catholic church after attending mass, on October 28, 1962 in Washington DC, few hours before Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev offers to retire the soviet missiles from Cuba. The Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. - The Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. On October 15, 1962, the US army discovered several Soviet nuclear missile ramps on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy then orders the maritime blockade of the island. After several days of negotiations between Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the CPSU, during which the world lives under the threat of nuclear war, the USSR retreats. After coming close to nuclear disaster, the two great powers decide to set up the hotline. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

'Get your missiles out of Cuba' demands US as Soviet convoy alters course (1962)

Gorbachev resigned on December 25 1991 and the Soviet Parliament ceased to exist the following day.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

2nd December 1963: American President Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses the nation on his first thanksgiving day television programme, broadcast from the executive offices of the White House. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

President Johnson accused of being ‘Villain of Vietnam’ at Communist rallies (19...

Letter to the editor

Bribe payers are as culpable as bribe takers

It was good to see support in Belfast last night for Ukraine. But Russia sees the West as weak, and in Northern Ireland and elsewhere we give them reason to think that

Ben Lowry: My memories of visiting a Ukraine that seemed part West, part Soviet

Prince Philip pictured in 2007

Prince Philip hits out at Soviet arms build-up (1981)

Nikita Khruschev and Dwight Eisenhower with their wives at a state dinner in 1959, both men were still leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States of America respectively at the time.

Archbishop’s praise for Khruschev (1959)

35th president of the USA John F Kennedy (1917 - 1963), left, at the White House with ex-president Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

President Kennedy’s dream - Together to the moon (1963)

What a car! The humble Lada

Blast from the Past: The Lada

Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers, Hazel Irvine, Sam Quek MBE, Clare Balding, Alex Scott MBE, Dan Walker, Gabby Logan, Jason Mohammad, Nihal Arthanayake

Olympics 2020 finally opens with a spectacle

The build up to the Olympic Games is rarely straightforward.

Claire Cartmill

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War PS5 review - 'A lot of bang for your buck'

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Activision just teased Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - here's everything we k...

flight crew of a Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V twin-engined, front line medium bomber of 102 Squadron 4 Group Bomber Operations Royal Air Force prior to taking off on a leaflet-dropping ('Nickelling') sortie over Germany on 8 March 1940 from RAF Driffield near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Bombs 'of heaviest type' dropped on Germany ny British and...

A woman carries a portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin during a traditional Communist Party demonstration in downtown Moscow on Tuesday, May 1, 2007. Picture: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Political training to be ‘intensified' as the Red Army is ...

Call of Duty: Warzone's battle royale mode features a gulag mode which has quickly spawned memes (Acitivision)

The gulag meme and social media trend from Call of Duty Warzone explained

Letter to the editor

The Irish military might soon come under the control of Sinn Fein-led government

A new trailer for Stranger Things season four has been released - here’s what it...

Letter to the editor

A mendacious comparison between the treatment of Protestants and the Jewish geno...

Letter to the editor

On Holocaust Remembrance Day it is worth noting that a leading Soviet diplomat w...

After being detained for days at the border, Mr OCathail was met in Tehran, above, by a friendly police delegation

After difficulty getting into Iran in the Soviet era, I found Iranians a lovely ...

Letter to the editor

The EU is an unaccountable supranational authority, which cares little about Ire...

Last Monday you reported Naomi Long's speech at the City Hall EU rally, in which she said 'we have the EU to thank for the longest period of peace and stability on the continent of Europe in history' ('˜EU is force for peace in Northern Ireland, rally told,' October 22).

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Letter to the editor

Unionism is far from delusional '“ it's stronger

Mikhail Gorbachev was president of the Soviet Union as it began to disintegrate

Declassified files: Plan to swap debt for Soviet nukes

Letter

Post Brexit is a time for careful words, not sneering

More Poles are acknowledged as Righteous by Yad Vashem, above, than people from any other country

False insinuations about Poland and its treatment of the Jews