Russia is re-forming an infamous Stalinist counterintelligence unit, UK intelligence said. SMERSH was used during the Communist era to catch spies. The Kremlin has intensified its search for ...
Russia has revived SMERSH, a Stalin-era spy hunting organization, in parts of Ukraine that were illegally annexed and are partially under the control of Kremlin forces, a Russian politician and ...
The Kremlin has admitted for the first time to recruiting inmates to fight in the war against Ukraine, saying the recruits "are atoning for their guilt with blood," a phrase first used by Soviet ...
Russia is preparing a new economics textbook for university students that aims to challenge what its authors call a “myth” ...
As memories of the Stalin era fade, a project run by young Russian historians is putting his journal and hundreds more like it online. While Alexander Yakovlev's death was over half a century before ...