The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...

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A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as ...

MARTIN GREEN is a long-standing multi-instrumentalist folk performer and composer, best known as the accordions in the innovative folk trio Lau.

MOSCOW - A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to ...

Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the early ...

Nearly half of the movies vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival are set in different decades of ...

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Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the gripping Soviet period drama "Two Prosecutors," marking the first time in nearly a decade that the celebrated filmmaker ...

Omole launches a slanderous attack on Trotskyism, celebrating the Stalinist bureaucracy’s counterrevolutionary role in destroying the Bolshevik Party, orchestrating the Great Purges of 1936 ...

His father, a member of the Soviet secret police, was a communist true-believer who helped enforce the Stalinist bloodletting known as the Great Purge. His mother was a statistician who quietly ...