A Russian soldier, photographed in Ukraine's Donetsk region in July 2023, wears the Soviet victory banner, a flag that was raised over Germany's Reichstag by Red Army troops in May 1945.

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

The Kremlin has stood at the heart of Russian power for centuries, evolving from medieval fortification to Cold War command ...

The Russian government is planning to open a political education workshop for youth that will be analogous to the Soviet-era Higher Komsomol School, which indoctrinated young Communist Party ...

Christmas Day 1991, the hammer and sickle, the red banner of the disintegrating Soviet Union, is lowered for the less time over the Kremlin. The last general-secretary of the Soviet Communist ...

This speech was given by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.

The evidence now indicates that the Kremlin leaders decided to give way before the criticism in the hope of channeling it. If a certain amount of nationalism had to be allowed, let it be granted ...

Kremlin seeks to erase the memory of Soviet repression. Moscow's Gulag History Museum has closed, and, throughout Russia, statues of Stalin are multiplying as the Kremlin seeks to reshape ...

A big Soviet banner hung in the hallway next to its restaurant has been turned round so Lenin is no longer visible. “Nobody wants to be reminded of Russia these days,” Ms. Koniecnza-Pilszek said.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. He will be remembered, at least in the West, as a pragmatic leader who ...

Mr. Konstantinov, a longtime pro-Russia politician in Crimea, sat next to Mr. Putin at the Kremlin when the Russian president signed the document annexing the peninsula to Russia. He also helped ...

In the 1970s, Komar and Melamid painted themselves as Lenin and Stalin. Within a decade, the Soviet expats were buying and selling souls in Manhattan. See how they weaponized absurdism – and ...