John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

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Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

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Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham ...

Russian prison authorities moved the jailed Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev to a punishment cell for allegedly breaching ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and desperate place that it became a strong contender for the worst labour camp duri ...

With Donald Trump’s second term about to begin, the world must gear up for what could be the most dramatic confrontation in ...

Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...

Because of Central Asia’s isolation from the world during the Soviet era, these artists remain little studied outside the ...