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 ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

Hotel Ukraine” is the 11th and last installment in the popular Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith. He launched the ...

Strukov found himself under pressure from the Kremlin, even though he has been "one of United Russia's main sponsors" for ...

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

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

Miguel arrived in Britain from Latin America in 2018. He applied for asylum, saying he was fleeing gangsters who would kill ...

In the past two decades many have discovered that asylum offers a back door. Instead of crossing a border stealthily, as in ...

Understanding communism requires looking squarely at Marx himself. In him, we find the violent, exploitative, self-centred ...

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

Opec's latest outlook revises up long-term oil demand by 2.8 million barrels per day by 2050, to 122.9 million bpd ...