In an interview with Irish Examiner political editor Elaine Loughlin, the Taoiseach says he believes defence will be a vital ...

The 1934 murder of Sergei Kirov shook the Soviet Union and became one of its greatest historical mysteries. Was it a lone gunman, or did Stalin orchestrate the killing to justify his purges? This deep ...

John Adams, a graduate student at the University of California, during the preparation of his thesis, asked the ChatGPT neural network to compile a rating of the best states in the history of mankind.

The annexation of Western Ukraine to the USSR was a political mistake by Joseph Stalin, which led to major negative ...

Lying a relic of Soviet grandeur, people from nearby towns have their wedding photos taken at the iconic ruins.

Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

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

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

The Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Révolutionnaires ( NPA-R) in France has its first congress on 31 January to 2 February. In ...

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