The Kremlin is reviving Soviet-era practices of censorship and prison sentences to suppress dissent and present Russian ...

Stalin’s ‘gifted’ skyscraper still looms over this Polish city - A riot broke out when the Rolling Stones played there in ...

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

A thorn called “stop awhile” grows in Africa, if one gets caught on any part of it trying to free himself he gets caught more ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans. Who were they, and did they really go away?

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 ...

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of the Greek epic The Odyssey has undergone a slight shuffle in its cast as Shōgun’s ...

The Russian Communist Party (CPRF) has formally announced its intention to rehabilitate the image of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, passing a resolutio ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

Peacefully at home, surrounded by his loved ones on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the age of 68. Predeceased by his father, Charles Carbone. He is ...