Despite being a civilian, a military court has sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

During the purges of the 1930s, many Soviet leaders issued lists of people they wanted arrested and shot, but Beria may have been the only one who personally got involved in torturing his victims.

TASS/. Probe of Nazi crimes against Soviet people during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War is very important, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. "A crucial ...

TASS/. Russia finds it outrageous that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not mention the multi-million casualties of the Soviet people in WWII in his recent remarks, Russian Foreign ...

Georgia plans to spend millions turning an abandoned Soviet-era spa town into a tourist attraction. But Tskaltubo's decaying sanatoriums are also home to refugees from a past civil war ...