A military commissar from the Russia-occupied peninsula of Crimea was prosecuted in Ukraine for the first time. Konstantin Kacharov was sentenced to 11 years in prison in absentia for forcing the ...

What the free world knows of the nightmarish operation of the Russian police state has been mainly divulged by people who fled the regime because they hated it. U.S.-born Anna Louise Strong, 63, ...

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, Russian spies have never been hotter on American television. FX has The Americans, NBC has upcoming drama Allegiance, and now HBO has put in development The ...

Oct 3 (Reuters) - The military commissar of Russia's Khabarovsk region was removed from his post after half of the newly mobilised personnel were sent home as they did not meet the draft criteria, the ...

If proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional ...