You don’t need to wield a hammer and sickle to feel the weight of Soviet tyranny hanging over Two Prosecutors, a solemn Stalin-era drama from Sergei Loznitsa that doubles as a metaphor for the kind of ...
Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could ...
Davis Simanis’ Stalin-era drama about a real-life Latvian star, Maria Leiko, who saw herself as untouchable before she was murdered by Russian secret police, is world premiering in Berlin. By Etan ...
Russia is re-forming an infamous Stalinist counterintelligence unit, UK intelligence said. SMERSH was used during the Communist era to catch spies. The Kremlin has intensified its search for ...
MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies ...
Joseph Stalin was not only a bookworm—his personal library contained some 20,000 volumes—but also a music-lover. In the evenings, at his dacha outside Moscow, the Soviet dictator would listen to every ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian human rights activist who helped to expose the Stalin-era Great Terror and found mass graves of thousands of the victims was freed from ...
Astana has quietly replaced a famine memorial plaque, dropping the word “Holodomor” for the neutral “famine.” The change has reignited debate over whether Kazakhstan’s 1930s famine should be called ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court is set to deliver its verdict on Wednesday in the closed-door trial of a historian accused of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, a case his lawyer says was ...