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

TODAY is the 85th anniversary of the first of a series of mass deportations from Poland’s eastern borderlands to Siberia.

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

Russia’s judicial system now hands down guilty verdicts at a rate 20 times higher than Stalin’s Soviet Union, and 30 times ...

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 ...

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

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the ...