In the early weeks of the war, prison authorities told top guards there would be no restrictions against violence.

The Russian judicial system now convicts at a rate 20 times higher than Stalin’s USSR.

Russia said on Thursday it had refused to renew the accreditation of Le Monde's correspondent due to France's refusal to ...

Keller Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to ...

On 11th September 1930, members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was ...

Russia's judicial system exhibits a staggering conviction rate, far exceeding even Stalin-era courts, with only 0.25% of ...

When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise. But that dream turned into a nine ...

When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise. But that dream turned into a nine-year ...

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...