Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Videos previously published by Filimonov demonstrate an affinity for Soviet leaders, and photographs of secret police chiefs Lavrentiy Beria and Felix Dzerzhinsky hang on the walls of his office.

Not content with denying the Holodomor and other Soviet atrocities, Putin’s Russia is honoring their perpetrators, erecting monuments to Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet ...

Polish and Russian revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) headed Cheka (the Soviet secret police) from 1917 to 1926. He was known as Iron Felix for his mercilessness and apathy. Ironically by ...

Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. Until 1901, he was known as. Volodya or Vladimir Ulyanov. In 1910 he took the political alias of Lenin. He was a political ...

In this age of social media overload, I confess that I’m addicted to recommendations of excellent books to read during our ...

A month after suffering a pinched nerve in his arm following a minor traffic accident, K-pop boy band Stray Kids’ member Felix has made his first public appearance at a fashion event.

The bench in Ludlow, in Shropshire, where Felix used to stretch out, has had a plaque installed, and a local artist has painted a portrait of him. Ailie Hill, who used to welcome him into her ...

By Billboard Japan LiSA dropped the music video for her collaborative single with Felix of Stray Kids called “ReawakeR.” The single is being featured as the opening theme for the TV anime Solo ...

You cannot make this up. Apple has acknowledged a bug in its iPhone dictation feature that caused the word “racist” to be transcribed as “Trump.” However, “Trump” did not appear every ...