At Moscow’s central Taganskaya metro station, commuters stream past a newly-restored monument to a former ruler whose reputation is undergoing a dramatic revision in Russia: Joseph Stalin.

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 ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would re-erect him in another, less central spot. Not everyone in Russia was convinced.

The war in Ukraine isn’t just about borders. It’s about how democracies remember, reckon, and resist. If we fail Ukraine, we ...

The works of the finalists of the Moscow Summer open art contest, part of the Summer in Moscow project, have become part of ...

The more drones in a single attack, Kuzan says, the more Ukraine hard-pressed air defence units struggle to shoot them down.

Martin Cruz Smith, who transported readers behind the Iron Curtain in his multifaceted crime novel “Gorky Park,” a Soviet-era ...

Above the entrance to the factory, a giant screen read, ‘Kurchatov, Korolyov and Stalin are living in your DNA,’ featuring ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

A former Metro councilwoman, who was once part of Mayor Greenberg's administration, has filed a lawsuit against Metro Government and her former boss.

Lynne Tracy, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, is leaving Moscow, her embassy said on Friday, noting she had served through one of the most strained periods in relations between Moscow and Washington.