In 1937, under Stalin, Archbishops Artak Smbatyan and Bagrat Vardazaryan were in NKVD basements and later executed by firing squad. Incidentally, our dear, fighting bishop was named after the latter.

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to Two Prosecutors, the latest feature written and directed by Ukrainian ...

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, to prosecute prominent members of Nazi Germany for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ...

Official photos from the opening ceremony, which saw a naval destroyer unceremoniously fall into the sea, appear to have been ...

FURIOUS Kim Jong-un is feared to have begun executing navy commanders he deems responsible for the botched warship launch.

Metreveli is a prominent surname from western Georgia, shared by numerous notable Georgian public figures and personalities. The surname Metreweli, as borne by the new chief of the British spy agency, ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and the elderly.

The great British stage actor Simon Russell Beale plays Lavrentiy Beria, the obese and odious head of the NKVD, the Soviet security apparatus. Beria had the clout to exile or kill Stalin’s enemies.

Context). Two Prosecutors is perhaps his most austere film to date — controlled as tightly as the NKVD (Stalin’s secret police of the 1930s and 40s) controlled the Soviet people.

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 ...

With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party ...