This video examines how Joseph Stalin rose from obscure revolutionary to absolute ruler of the Soviet Union and reshaped the ...

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, April 23 (Reuters) - Four European states have accused Russia of trying to destroy the memory of ...

In the Paris suburb of Vanves, a small literary circle keeps alive the memory of the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, in ...

The Russian Defense Ministry says the traditional Victory Day parade will take place without military equipment.

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

The long freeze on free expression is cracking in Russia as it did at the end of the Soviet Union. It's two biggest artistic ...

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's ...

Grisly images smuggled from the Ukrainian front by Russian soldiers reveal monstrous abuse by their commanding officers, ...

FOR years, Maxwell Nasmyth’s family feared he was a Walter Mitty character. His tales of wondrous adventures around the world ...

From the Cheka to the NKVD and eventually the KGB, the Soviet state built a security machine that ruled through arrests, torture, executions, and fear. What began as a revolutionary tool to crush ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers celebrates the scientific triumphs of the Soviet Union. In the Tajik capital ...

The diplomatic spat between Kyiv and Jerusalem over the Russian vessel wanting to unload stolen grain from occupied Ukrainian ...