Lying a relic of Soviet grandeur, people from nearby towns have their wedding photos taken at the iconic ruins.

Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

Political repression in Russia is aimed at destroying not just oppositional thinking, but free thinking as such, because even ...

Russia is claiming it has captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Catherine the Great and Stalin.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) announced on January 30 that Romania "firmly" supports the sovereignty, territorial ...

Imagine a political and cultural revolution that shakes the world. Indeed, one could easily say it turned the world upside down. Now imagine you are part ...

Russia’s judicial system now hands down guilty verdicts at a rate 20 times higher than Stalin’s Soviet Union, and 30 times ...

Russia's judicial system exhibits a staggering conviction rate, far exceeding even Stalin-era courts, with only 0.25% of ...

January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats — not bunches of delicate ...

Trump may feel that he can cut-a-deal with Vladimir Putin to stop the fighting and save Odessa, but there are limits to Putin ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...