FILE PHOTO: Historian Yuri Dmitriev speaks with people outside a court building in Petrozavodsk MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday denied bail to Yuri Dmitriev, a historian who angered ...

These traditional Matryoshka, or Russian nesting, dolls bearing the faces of Russian president Vladimir Putin and former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin are seen in a souvenir shop in Kiev, Ukraine, on ...

The Russian Revolution may have ended the reign of the tsars, but it did not see off totalitarian rule, with dictators governing for decades until the Soviet Union's demise. To date, Soviet strongman ...

A museum director in Russia's Karelia region has been arrested for having allegedly "corrupted" a minor. But with the charges closely echoing those against another detained historian and human rights ...

We use names of public figures as short-hand tags for political processes or maneuvers. An example would be to “Bork” a candidate’s nomination before Congress. I propose to add to this list “Voz,” ...

British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98. Mr. Conquest ...

It’s possible to be critical of Israel and not be anti-Semitic. This is true irrespective of one’s politics. In 1956, for instance, President Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israeli Prime Minister David Ben ...

NPR's Cheryl Corley speaks with investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov about his recent piece in Foreign Affairs entitled "Putin's New Police State." As the war in Ukraine rages on, there's been a ...

The move is widely viewed as a watershed moment in Putin's crackdown on dissent. MOSCOW -- In what has been described as a watershed moment for President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on dissent, ...

Someday in the not-too-distant future, you'll be sitting in the dark of a multiplex as a trailer plays for the first big-budget movie rendering of the Donald Trump administration. No doubt there will ...