First held on the island of Hokkaido in 1988, a showdown was held in Sweden in 1992 and the fun sport eventually spread via ...

and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance. Austria is now a member of the European Union ...

In retrospect, the current Russian presence in Austria is little different from the Soviet presence in post-1955 Cold War Austria. Then as now, the country was infiltrated with Russian spies.

Beyond economics and energy, neutrality in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods has also elevated Austria’s role on the international stage as “a venue for rapprochement between the East and ...

and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance. Austria is now a member of the European Union ...