Bershidsky: Russian Schools to Teach Putin's Version of History

The St. Petersburg Times A state-funded Olympic-themed art exhibit in Perm featuring a fanged Josef Stalin in a polar bear costume, among other images, has incurred the wrath of Moscow officials and was moved to a closed exhibition space after ...

LONDON: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as the Second World War was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed. Relations between the two ...

Critics say Brezhnev, who ruled longer than any Soviet leader except dictator Josef Stalin, presided over a period of political repression and economic stagnation. But many Russians see his 18-year rule, until his death in 1982, as a time of ...

Russia's cultural elite is at loggerheads over whether to rebuild a museum closed by the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin, with the fate of masterpieces by Monet, Renoir and Picasso at stake.Shut down in 1948 for being too "bourgeois," Moscow's State ...

MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti) Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov on Monday condemned the sales of busts of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, one of the 20th century's most brutal dictators, at a kiosk inside the State Duma, Russia's lower house of ...

MOSCOW - Rusiaan President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was not returning Russia to the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and denied any political motive in the prosecution and jailing of opponents. In response to a question from a liberal ...

Josef Stalin famously uttered the demonically cynical maxim that The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. In other words, he believed that when faced with the choice of focusing on horrors small and tangible or vast ...

Von unserem dpa-Korrespondenten und Europe Online Moskau (dpa) - 60 Jahre nach dem Tod von Josef Stalin hat Russlands Archivdienst Tausende Dokumente des Sowjetdiktators im Internet veröffentlicht. Die Freigabe der bisher geheim gehaltenen ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia Memorial, which has fought to preserve the memory of Josef Stalin But Memorial and groups like vote-monitor Golos, which has revealed electoral fraud, say they have never faced a bigger threat to their existence than in ...