At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the Soviet Union – ed.) and KGB officers who did not fight during World ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

This article by Alisa Selezneva was originally published in Russian in Holod Magazine on February 19, 2025. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Bones uncovered on the outskirts of Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok belong to hundreds of victims of Stalinist purges executed by the NKVD secret police, municipal ...

From 1942 onward, the NKVD developed rigorous systems to identify and separate Waffen SS prisoners from regular German soldiers. Seen as ideological threats rather than mere POWs, SS men were held in ...