Stalin starved populations to death to russify Ukraine, North Caucasus and Kazakhstan, statistics show
Today, Ukrainians and people of good will around the world will mark the Day in Memory of the…
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Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
Crimea, Donbas, Aleppo — crimes of historic proportions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved his goal. He has entered the history books as a head of…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Chechen and Afghan echoes of Putin’s military operation in Syria
On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce Russian forces into the Syrian civil war on…
Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
Ukrainian blogger challenges Russian presenter during MH17 show, gets shoved out of studio [VIDEO]
During the show, German journalist Andre Ballin questioned the credibility of the Russian official investigators. Ukrainian blogger Serhiy…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…
“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Lists of NKVD victims killed in mass executions in 1941 published online
75 years ago, during June - July 1941, the Soviet NKVD shot around 24 thousand prisoners in western…
Afanasyev and Soloshenko: How the FSB breaks prisoners
Released on June 14, Ukrainian political prisoners Gennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko meet us at the hospital where…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…
Crimean Tatars no longer alone in remembering Stalin’s crimes against their nation
Seventy-two years ago, the Soviet state deported the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Central Asia, a tragedy…
Why do many Westerners show sympathy to Russia and Communism – but not to their victims?
Those who study the post-Soviet world and especially its non-Russian parts are often struck by the fact that…
Holodomor: Stalin’s genocidal famine of 1932-1933 | Infographic
Holodomor ("death by hunger" in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of at least four million Ukrainians in 1932–33…
Hitler used to say: ‘Nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays’
On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler explained to his entourage why he thought he could get away with…