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Georgia’s Stalin Museum reassesses its hometown hero

May 24, 2012 Joy Neumeyer
Plans to turn the shrine-like spot into a memorial to repression marks the end of an era in Gori, Stalin’s birthplace

Russia celebrates Victory Day

May 9, 2012 RIA Novosti, The Moscow Times
Russia held a parade in Red Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War

Boris Drozdov: “There is no one to tell the young generation”

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
Moscow resident Boris Drozdov, 78, whose father and grandfather were repressed under Stalin, talked to Russia Now about his family’s survival

What Russians think about Stalin

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
In the West, Stalin is remembered for the terror he inflicted on his own people, while at home the collective memory is more complex

Depicting Russia's lost generation

April 30, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
A recent translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst” brings this spare and original novelist, who Russians have compared to J.D. Salinger, to English-language readers

The way we were: Communism revisited

April 24, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Statues, buildings and smaller mementoes of the recent past have been preserved as a reminder of Communist times

Streltsov, Russia’s Pelè in the gulag

March 19, 2012 Nicola Sellitti
One of Russia’s first sports rebels went from the Soviet national team to a force labor camp in Siberia. Today Eduard Streltsov is recognized as one of the greats

First Woman in Space

March 11, 2012 Daria Gonzales
This week Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, celebrated her 75th birthday

Strengthening the international legal system

February 22, 2012 Yevgeny Shestakov
Today Russia’s foreign policy is more than self-serving – it seeks to uphold the international institutions that have served the world as a whole for the last 60 years

Can Russia call the U.S. normal?

February 15, 2012 Fyodor Lukyanov, RIA Novosti
The U.S. should be thankful for anti-American sentiment in Russia – Russia is the only country that still thinks the United States is capable of causing international chaos

Relics of the Soviet era remain in Russia

January 23, 2012 Grigory Kubatian
Communism is dead, but Vladimir Lenin lives in the more than 6,000 statues and monuments dedicated to him all over Russia.

Utopia became a reality

January 18, 2012 Olga Kabanova, Vedomosti.ru
Curator Olga Sviblova has opened an exhibit, “Russian Cosmos,” at Italy’s Castello di Rivoli Museum

When monuments fall: the politics of toppling political sculpture

January 12, 2012 Peter Cheremushkin
How do political prejudices affect the cultural heritage of the former Soviet republics?

The eye of the storm

January 12, 2012 Nalalia Zaitseva, Russian Reporter
Russian and Soviet winners from the World Press Photo 1955-2010

More questions than answers in North Korea

January 11, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko
As Kim Jong Un succeeds his father, political experts around the world wait to see if he will bring about new dialogue with the North Korea’s neighbors or if he will continue the isolationist policies of his predecessors

A Window to Soviet Moscow

January 10, 2012 Darya Zhuk
A photography exhibit echoing 1950s Moscow stirs up memories of the Soviet capital

Escape to the USSR: Kim Philby's secret documents revealed

January 1, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
We publish the secret notes Kim Philby with about the circumstances surrounding his wife, Eleanor, when he fled from Beirut to the USSR in 1963. These were declassified especially for the book about Philby written by Nikolai Dolgopolov

The secret life of legendary spy

January 1, 2012 Nikolai Dolgopolov
To commemorate the 100th birthday of double agent Kim Philby, a new book about him has been published by Russian journalist Nikolai Dolgopolov. Below is an extract from the book – an interview with a high-ranking officer of the Soviet Intelligence, w

Exiled to Russia: double agent Kim Philby

January 1, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
To commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday, a new book on double agent Kim Philby has been published by award-winning Russian journalist and writer Nikolai Dolgopolov

Soviet propaganda comes to America

December 24, 2011 Xenia Grubstein
Soviet Posters from World War II enliven a Chelsea gallery in New York
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