British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Russian prison authorities moved the jailed Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev to a punishment cell for allegedly breaching ...

Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and desperate place that it became a strong contender for the worst labour camp duri ...

Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...