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The grandson of Josef Stalin is suing the radio station Ekho Moskvy, it said on Saturday, in a second attempt to stem media criticism of the leader whom many Russians still revere for victory in World War Two.

Dec 20 - While most Russians consider Joseph Stalin a good leader, they still do not want their country to be run by a politician of this type, a recent social poll showed.

Earlier this month, Russian PM Putin said advances made by the Soviet Union under dictator Joseph Stalin came at an unacceptable price.

An exhibition of nude prints with comments apparently written by former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that refer to his party comrades is on in Moscow.

Russia's War , which originally aired on PBS in 1995, chronicles the years that Joseph Stalin ruled over the Soviet Union and led the country through the years before, during, and after WWII until his death.

Although the historical aspects of Systema are vague, it is acknowledged as a Russian martial art and has some of its roots in Sambo.

The nation listens, as Mr Putin embarks on his annual televised question-and-answer session in which he emphasised the 'positive aspects' of Stalin's rule Tony Halpin in Moscow Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades, but the dictator is a step closer to rehabilitation after ...

History's most notorious Georgian-turned-Russian, the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing.

Go easy on Ioseb Dzhugashvili, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today. After all the man modernized Russia, helped them win the Second World War and did plenty of other good things.

John Sweeney has travelled more than 5,000 miles through the old Soviet Union - from Joseph Stalin's birthplace in Georgia to a former labour camp in Russia - to find out if one of the 20th Century's most notorious mass-murderers is really being rehabilitated.

In this part of the world there have been only faint echoes of this startling event but in Russia and Europe there is enormous excitement over Stalin's spectacular comeback, after more than half a century of oblivion, in the hearts and minds of the Russian people.

A statue of a politician considered to be one of the main instigators of the man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s, has been demolished.

Marc Almond returns to St. Petersburg to give a glimpse of his second 'Russian' album, called 'Orpheus in Exile.' Due to perform at Zal Ozhidaniya on Sunday, Almond will pay homage to the late St.

Filmmakers have employed animals as actors since the medium's emergence. A dog named Skippy played Asta in the 1934 classic film 'The Thin Man' and Francis the Talking Mule starred in comedies throughout the 1950s.

This Sunday we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. When Jesus was crucified, a wooden sign was nailed over his head with the inscription INRI, which in Latin means "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum" . People from Ilocos Norte like myself claim affinity to Jesus because INRI means for them "Ilocos Norte Region I." Anyway, we ask: Is Christ really a ...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was to hold rare talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday aimed at preventing a repeat of last winter's gas crisis.

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Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, recounts the life of Red Army chief Leon Trotsky.

Joseph Stalin declassified. Newly revealed documents about Stalin and the founding of the USSR and his inner circle.

Medvedev's condemnation of the gulags was bold a ' many Russians view Stalin as an icon of communism's old certainties An employee cleans a sculpture of Joseph Stalin, at a factory in St Petersburg.