Vladimir Putin once had police raid a cinema showing a film for breaching a very specific law. Putin has never been a leader to be far away from headlines, shown most recently by his ongoing public ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

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 ...

New York Times journalist Nanna Heitmann spent six days in Russia's Kursk region near the front lines, where she was ...

The New York Times released a report from Russia’s Kursk Oblast, near the border with Ukraine, in areas reportedly retaken by Russian forces. The article’s author, Nanna Heitmann, was accompanied by ...

Overshadowed by the wars and associated crises that dominate news, democratic South Korea has defeated a power grab that ...

As official data vanishes from Russian state reports, independent experts warn that losses from Putin's war in Ukraine are ...

The reported suicide of Russia's transport minister hours after he was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin, sparking ...

The site of a chilling cult massacre, which resulted in the deaths of over 900 people nearly half a century ago, has been ...

In 1932–33, millions in Ukraine starved while Soviet grain rotted in storage. This wasn’t a natural disaster—it was a weapon.

Everyone agrees: it's getting worse.The people of Kyiv have, like the citizens of other Ukrainian cities, been through a ...

It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025 ...