Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IN THE SPRING OF 2022, THE EARLY DAYS and weeks of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine were marked by a drastic hardening of ...

In the Paris suburb of Vanves, a small literary circle keeps alive the memory of the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, in ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...

Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev’s recapture was near. The winter’s chill breath was already upon the city, ...

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Communist No. 1 had not only thrown 85 divisions of the Red Army into Poland and mobilized a total of more than 4,000,000 troops last week, but all over Russia thousands of fresh conscripts continued ...

MOSCOW -- The typewritten letters on a yellowing page spell out the end of an era in striking shorthand. Next to the time -- 9:50 p.m., March 5, 1953 -- is just a brief entry: "Comrade I.V. Stalin ...

Television viewers have voted Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who sent millions to their deaths in the 1930s, Russia’s third-greatest historical figure. Rights activists have blasted Stalin’s inclusion ...