Walk around any Russian city, from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Yekaterinburg and Kazan, and you will come across ...

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.

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

The survival of Estonia, Europe and the broader Western world hinges on resisting the dangerous allure of appeasement in the ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...

This three-minute phone call is the subject of A Dictator Calls, the last novel by the leading Albanian writer, intellectual ...

In the wave of documentaries about the Ukraine War that have come out over the past two years, there hasn’t been one that’s ...

After a childhood in Russia in which Yaroshevskaya was deprived of owning a doll, she went on to embody one on television as Fanfreluche as she read from, riffed on and interpreted children’s fairy ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested ... noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and ...

Stalin died in his bed ... the fatal crippling of an Azeri airliner over Chechen airspace by Russia’s trigger-happy air defences brought home how far – a quarter of a century later ...