President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which ...

Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking ...

Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy chief of the Soviet secret ... which he used to advance within the ranks of the secret police. At the time, Soviet ...

A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of Leningrad and Moscow Jewish leaders ...

Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin ... At the time, Soviet leaders reportedly feared that Beria would use his control of the secret police to fully seize ...