His range was like a swinging pendulum of human temperament, allowing him to be bellowing and destructive or discreet and vulnerable — sometimes within a single film or even a single scene.

President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia was always going to reopen old fault lines, and it did—quickly—pulling protesters back into the streets to heckle a trip meant, at least in part, to ...

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

The storied actor uttered one of the most famous lines in cinema history, but will be known as one of film's most varied performers.

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Torture in Russian captivity is systematic. In a new documentary, The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit uncovers the torture of Ukrainian civilians held by Russian forces and traces ...

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged.

In this conversation, Georgian historian Giorgi Mamulia explains the complex relationship that the Georgian people have with ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...