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.

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

The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War Two but pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet Victory Banner was raised over the Reichstag in 1945.

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 ...

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 ...

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication.

Days after the coup ended, Soviet Republics began to declare independence from the USSR On Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s Red Banner was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time, replaced by ...

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 ...