The 1934 murder of Sergei Kirov shook the Soviet Union and became one of its greatest historical mysteries. Was it a lone ...

who was executed for alleged complicity in the assassination of the Soviet leader Sergei M. Kirov, was a member of the noted Russian Jewish family of Mandelstam, it has been revealed here.

Up before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, “Stalin’s Executioner,” stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were ...

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev awards servicemen, ...

Popular hypothesis: “Dear Friend Sergei” Kirov, mentioned in Russia before his death with increasing frequency as an eventual successor to Stalin, was shot by order of the careful Dictator who ...

They were tried at Leningrad where Kirov was killed and found guilty of organizing counter-revolution to overthrow the government. The court found they did not inspire Kirov's murder but knew of ...

In 1935, an additional 98 individuals were sentenced, 19 to prison and 79 to exile, for playing a role in the assassination of Sergei Kirov as Josef Stalin ruled unchallenged throughout Soviet Russia.

This year, Russia marks the 100th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew Romanovs and put an end monarchy. RBTH visited some key sites of the 1917 revolution in search of people who would ...