Suspicion fell on the French ambassador, Étienne Manac’h. The ŠtB dubbed the secret operation “Monaco”, and the methods used ...

You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...

Opinion: A new statue for an old tyrant Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but in recent years new statues ...

Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Boichuk and his circle of socialist artists perished in Stalin’s 1930s repression, destroying much of the movement’s beautiful public murals in the process. Today what ...

An exploration of the historical and contemporary dynamics of the Russian Orthodox Church and its evolving relationship with the Russian state ...

RUSSIA has some of the world's most beautiful and unusual churches, but they have mostly remained hidden from the eyes of foreigners. Many of them are outside the big cities to which travelers ...

Country's stance contrasts that of neighbouring Russia, which still holds around a million items of war booty looted from Germany ...

The Soviet Union of the 1920s was not Stalin’s but Lenin’s, where the constituent republics, Ukraine biggest among them after Russia, were grudgingly allowed to experiment and develop their own ...

That was the kind of dizzying prospect facing the Russian people in the tumultuous years of 1917 and 1918, when the radical artists Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall joined the government payroll ...

The initiatives of some Russian parishes that exhibit portraits of the Soviet dictator alongside those of proclaimed saints stirs controversy. Moscow (AsiaNews) - The figure of Stalin continues ...

Vladimir Putin will almost certainly emerge victorious in Russia's presidential election. He's mobilized the entire government to help him.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s innovative Martyrs of Communism project is a revival of the classically Catholic way of preaching the Gospel message.