Communists in Russia are commemorating the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin -- the founding father of the Soviet Union. Many Russians denounce suggestions that Lenin's body should be moved, and they made ...

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

The region broke away from Moldova following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, but it is not recognised as a state.

The memory of mercy can temper aggression, and peace can sometimes be sown in acts of care. A century ago, as Russia grappled ...

Russia imposed its traditions on us in two ways: through the Moscow church — during both the Russian Empire and Soviet times ...