Russia and Ukraine

The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has died of colon cancer in a US care home, aged 85. Svetlana Alliluyeva, also known as ...

Questions of history prompt heated debate and stir powerful emotions in Russia, as in all post-Communist countries. Many attempts have been ...

Three and a half months after a Ukrainian court convicted Stalin of genocide against the Ukrainian nation during the famine of 1932-1933, a...

ZAPORIZHYA, Ukraine -- Ukrainian Communists on Wednesday unveiled the first monument in Ukraine's modern history to Soviet dictator Jos...

Russia has published online once-secret files on the 1940 Katyn massacre, in which some 22,000 members of the Polish elite were killed by ...

City Hall plans to set up billboards in central Moscow to explain dictator Josef Stalin's role in the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany,...

The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine are to go on d...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made an outspoken attack on those seeking to rehabilitate former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Millions...

The freshly renovated Kurskaya metro station reopened this week as the newest front in a bitter controversy over the legacy of Soviet leader...

Soviet government documents released since the USSR's collapse give us a clear idea of what drove Stalin's thinking in concluding th...

As European democracies celebrate the 20th anniversary of their liberation from communism and the Soviets, Moscow seeks to restore its domin...

Russia’s attitude towards the past has changed dramatically since Vladimir Putin first took office as president in 2000. The official positi...