It was founded in 1931 to transform a desert area into a model metropolis by mobilizing the best architects, engineers and ...

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

The trio have expressed their anger after Donald Trump threatened Russia and said that Moscow helped the U.S. win World War ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

Kyiv's top military commanders says Vladimir Putin lost more fighters in 2024 than in the previous two years combined.

British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...

Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...