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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, over three days from May 18 to May 20, 1944, Soviet security forces rounded up at least 200,000 Crimean Tatars on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and brutally sent them into exile ...

Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old resident of Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, spoke with RFE/RL about how her family survived the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in ...

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 ...

The film explores the complexities of life in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, highlighting the contrast between the technological advancements and the persistent influence of traditional ...