At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 ...

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

Four years. Not four days. The question now is not whether Ukraine can survive another week. It has shown it can. The deeper ...

During the early Cold War, Western intelligence launched secret operations to overthrow Albania’s Stalinist regime. Exiles ...

When the 105-day war ended, almost 400,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed or wounded or were missing. The Kremlin reported minor losses. Vladimir Putin, a Stalin admirer, should have studied the ...

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

In the first half of 2025, the most stolen item was the Russian constitution, which guarantees free speech and forbids censorship. Hence, a Russian joke: “We read Orwell for his reflection of ...

The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the ...

In the summer of 1957, over 34,000 foreign visitors arrived in Moscow for the World Festival of Youth and Students, marking ...

A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin ...