The Soviet statesman Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986) was second in command during Stalin's regime and served as the chief Soviet diplomat in World War II. Vyacheslav Molotov was born on March 9, 1890, in the village of Kukarka (now Sovetsk)...

FOR much of the time between 1930 and 1952, Vyacheslav Molotov, a laconic, unsmiling man called Mr Nyet behind his back by western diplomats, was second only to Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. He played a decisive role in the famine of...

Molotov: A Biography, by Derek Watson. Center for Russian and East European Studies. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xx, 376 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Derek Watson has written the first major political biography of Vyacheslav M. Molotov, arguably for many years Stalin's...

Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and...

Beryl Denzer HinesWASHINGTON (AP) _ Beryl Denzer Hines, a Cold War journalist who landed the first U.S. television interview with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov among other scoops, has died. She was 84.Hines died July 30 at a Washington nursing home of complications from cancer,...