Joseph Stalin's grandson has sued a prominent Russian newspaper for libel, claiming Novaya Gazeta is tarnishing the former Soviet leader's good name. The news comes on the heels of a United Nation's committee finding that...
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Would we hit the 'reset' button with Stalin? By Lionel Beehner Vladimir Lenin may have gotten his own tomb, but it is Joseph Stalin's ghost that hovers most over Russian politics today. Last week, President Dmitry Medvedev said...
By Masha Lipman, editor of the Carnegie Moscow Center's Pro et Contra journal who writes a monthly column for The Post (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/11/09): On Friday, as Russia recognized its annual commemoration of political...
MOSCOW - When Russian businessman Yevgeny Ostrovsky decided to name his kebab joint Anti-Soviet Shashlik, he thought of it as black humor. But it was also, in that ambiguous, extra-judicial way so common in today's Russia, a...