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.

Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

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

Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

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

Comment raconter aux nouvelles générations des Pays baltes les crimes soviétiques et nazis ? Quel est le juste équilibre pour dire les crimes des uns et des autres ? Chacun apporte sa réponse ...

CONCEIVED in the tense atmosphere of the 1960s, Skrunda-1 was built to house the operators of an early warning radar system, designed to detect incoming missiles from the West. ©News Group ...