A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor General's ...

As shown above, since 1948 the Soviet Union launched a series of show trials and executions of Jews in its empire. In general, the so-called “rootless cosmopolitan” victims were falsely ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union.

He was Major General of engineering and technical service. He served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces for decades. He received many medals of honour from the Soviet Union. In 1972, the late ...

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to ...

Castro's courtship of the Soviet Union began shortly after the revolution ... That October he traveled to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, demanding an international redistribution ...