Vladimir Putin once had police raid a cinema showing a film for breaching a very specific law. Putin has never been a leader to be far away from headlines, shown most recently by his ongoing public ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

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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 ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

New York Times journalist Nanna Heitmann spent six days in Russia's Kursk region near the front lines, where she was ...

The New York Times released a report from Russia’s Kursk Oblast, near the border with Ukraine, in areas reportedly retaken by Russian forces. The article’s author, Nanna Heitmann, was accompanied by ...

After announcing its closure in June, Stalin may reopen later this summer in a temporary, outdoor-only format following ...

Understanding communism requires looking squarely at Marx himself. In him, we find the violent, exploitative, self-centred ...

Overshadowed by the wars and associated crises that dominate news, democratic South Korea has defeated a power grab that ...

As official data vanishes from Russian state reports, independent experts warn that losses from Putin's war in Ukraine are ...