Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in a fake contest marks the latest phase in a transition from authoritarianism to outright autocracy One of the curiosities of the Soviet Union was the seri...
The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates What ...
Russian opposition figure facing up to 25 years in jail tells Moscow court he stands by all of his political statements Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces up to a quarter ...
Attacks on free speech | Music without the chat | BBC Radio Cymru | Rightwing press | Consultant charges Rafael Behr’s excellent piece on Vladimir Putin’s threats to neighbouring countries ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/putins-threats-and-vodka-with-stalin
The signs are good. Ukraine’s leader is avoiding the mistakes of the second world war – while Putin shows every sign of repeating them The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s speech...
Bundestag hopes move will serve as ‘warning’ to Moscow as Ukraine faces potential hunger crisis Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Germany’s Bundestag is planning to pass a resol...
Maria Prymachenko created seemingly happy scenes of rural life. But look closer and you see the terror unleashed on her country by Stalin. Now her work has once again become a national symbol, du...
BLAINE STOTHARD says Russia has no intention of respecting existing treaties, so another one would be futile. PETER WILSON thinks the sheer power of Vladimir Putin’s narcissistic desperation sh...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/a-new-treaty-will-not-end-the-war-in-ukraine
Joseph Stalin owned about 20,000 books, many with jottings in the margin. Does his library hold the key to his character? Stalin was a voracious reader, who set himself a daily quota of between...
Yury Dmitriyev’s term increased to 15 years on charges supporters say are punishment for exposing Soviet-era crimes A Russian court has increased a jail sentence for the Gulag historian Yury ...
After his father’s death, he was propelled to the top of the totalitarian dynasty. How has he been allowed to last so long? How do tyrants survive? History is littered with examples of cruel ...
A sufferer writes about how the skin condition affected figures as diverse as Joseph Stalin, John Updike and Cyndi Lauper Sergio del Molino was 21 years old when he first experienced symptoms o...
Authorities question staff of Russian NGO Memorial after mob disrupts screening of Mr Jones at its office A group of masked men stormed the offices of a renowned human rights organisation in Mo...
Russian counterpart tweets photo of pair in chairs like those sat in by Churchill and Stalin in 1943 when Iran was occupied The new British ambassador to Iran has landed himself in hot water by...
Massed mourners hail the dictator’s flower-clad body in a film that gives long-lost footage a new and unnerving lease of life For this very disquieting documentary, like a two-hour bad dream,...
Crafted from footage locked for years in an archive, Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral focuses on the motivations of the mourners who lived under the brutal regime “At 21.50, due to cardiovas...
An impressive study of the conflict’s major players contends that the Soviet despot was the dominant force “It is necessary to deprive the German command of all initiative, forestall the ad...
Archaeologists have discovered foundations of the previously unknown structure in the city’s Letná park The colossal monument to Joseph Stalin that towered over Prague at the height of the ...
For a brief period from 1918, modernist art and poetry flourished in Georgia – until the Red Army’s arrival ushered in censorship and the Great Terror of 1937 Continue reading...
Millions of Soviet citizens were sent to vast network of prison camps under Stalin. Now their descendants seek recompense Alisa Meissner is paying to this day for the Soviet Union’s decision t...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/children-of-the-gulag-soviet-stalin