The distinguished Tatar religious scholar Musa Jarullah Bigiev — hitherto a supporter of the liberal Ittifaq party — toured ...

Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering ...

His work, while deeply rooted in Soviet traditions, sometimes challenged the very premises of Socialist Realism by revealing ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

Arkady Renko now fumbles with his keys at the door as his Parkinson’s disease gradually grows worse. The legendary Russian ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force. From industrial expansion through Five-Year Plans to tank development and ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

MOSCOW – A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow’s metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it is a mistake to ...

World Stalin Is Towering Over Moscow Commuters Again After 60 Years HE’S BA-ACK A Soviet-era monument to the dictator has been lovingly restored after going missing in the 1960s. Tom Sanders ...