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 ...

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 ...

Russia has revived SMERSH, a Stalin-era spy hunting organization, in parts of Ukraine that were illegally annexed and are partially under the control of Kremlin forces, a Russian politician and ...

As memories of the Stalin era fade, a project run by young Russian historians is putting his journal and hundreds more like it online. While Alexander Yakovlev's death was over half a century before ...

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 ...

The Kremlin has admitted for the first time to recruiting inmates to fight in the war against Ukraine, saying the recruits "are atoning for their guilt with blood," a phrase first used by Soviet ...

KYIV -- Ukraine on May 18 marked the 79th anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. The date known in Ukraine as the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Genocide ...

The use of police-state tactics against a senior British official in St. Petersburg, and the forced closure of British cultural offices, suggest that Russia is fast ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday that revived the Soviet-era "Mother Heroine" award for women with 10 children or more, in an apparent attempt to alleviate a demographic ...

Around 200 of the 1,300 plaques have been taken down by vandals in the past two years - Copyright AFP/File Michele Spatari Around 200 of the 1,300 plaques have been ...