In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

The US President has promised a "major" statement on Ukraine today amid growing frustration with Vladimir Putin's refusal to ...

You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow removed the group from its list of ...

Summers in Russia are short. Come autumn, the stages will be dismantled and the flowers removed. No one knows what next ...

Russian leaders have increasingly used museums and their digital collections to show propaganda about Slavic unity and deny Ukrainian identity since the 2022 invasion, analysis shows.

The Museum of the Special Purpose Garage in Moscow traces the evolution of Russian official vehicles, from imperial Delaunay-Belleville models to contemporary Aurus limousines - Anadolu Ajansı ...

A reshuffling at the helm of the Gulag Museum in Moscow has revealed how the Kremlin is creating a new ideologically loyal cadre of cultural managers, some of whom are even receiving military ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.

Even before Russia effectively banned political dissent following its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Gulag History Museum in Moscow felt like it was running on borrowed time.

Moscow's Gulag History Museum faces closure amid Kremlin crackdown on independent civil society and historical interpretation.

Until recently, Moscow’s state-funded Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs.