Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

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With diplomatic relations spanning more than 180 sovereign states, the Holy See maintains one of the world’s most extensive ...

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered the release of 34 individuals including the Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ ...

The harsh conditions of the tundra conceal old Soviet locomotives. Although years have passed, they still stand there, ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

CHENNAI: The ties between Dravidianism and communism were beyond electoral politics and the "ideological friendship" would ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

CONCEIVED in the tense atmosphere of the 1960s, Skrunda-1 was built to house the operators of an early warning radar system, designed to detect incoming missiles from the West. ©News Group ...