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 ...

The existence of a mass grave in the Kommunarka district in southwestern Moscow first came to light in the dying days of the Soviet Union when the KGB opened up its archives. Historians believe some 6 ...

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 ...

NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a repurposed Soviet-era air base to serve alliance aircraft as tensions over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine rattle the region ...

Survivors marked the 50th anniversary of a revolt in a Stalin-era prison camp Tuesday, recalling how troops crushed the rebellion with tanks and machine guns -- and urging society to face up to Soviet ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and set up ...

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 ...