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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.

Over the last 90 years, the Moscow Metro has grown with the city, from a small network to a worldwide case study in transport ...

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev enter a hall during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 8, 2024.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decad ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected ...