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

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

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

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

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

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP ...

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

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

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

Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer. He was also, unfortunately for humanity, a fairly smart guy. He made many observations such as it does not matter who votes but rather who counts the ballots.

Roger Allam (playing Winston Churchill) is joined by Alan Cox as Archie Clerk Kerr, Julius D’Silva as Vyacheslav Molotov, Peter Forbes as Joseph Stalin, Tamara Greatrex as Svetlana Stalin, Jo Herbert ...