Xi Jinping's purges in China, reminiscent of Stalin and Mao, highlight the challenges of managing a vast system and maintaining elite loyal...

Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader, says he is considering his succession. He suggests multiple candidates should be available for the people ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who first rose to power in 1999, made it clear that the result should send a message to the West tha...

Russian President Vladimir Putin may announce his decision to participate in the 2024 elections in November, as per Kommersant newspaper. T...

Russia said eight drones targeted civilian areas of Moscow and the Moscow region - with a population of over 21 million - in the early hour...

Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on...

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., a prominent opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars sinc...

Chinese and Russian states have loomed large in each other's foreign affairs since the 17th century, when two empires created a border with...

Putin, the longest-serving paramount Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, has dominated Russia for nearly 23 years since Boris Yeltsin gave h...

What is now Ukraine was a contested region of shifting borders for centuries that did not come completely under Moscow's rule until late in...

Hundreds of visiting supporters have been queuing up to visit Josef Stalin's bunker - chambers dug out underneath the southwestern city to ...

Marx had a devout following and he seemed to have been irritated by it, and he was forced to say that he was not a Marxist. Engels was the ...

People with unusual names do rise to political prominence today: a few decades ago, no one would have betted on someone called Barack Husse...

Buildings hewn from pink volcanic rocks, azure to deep blue lakewater, honey-hued liquor - Armenia, in the Caucusus mountains, offers many ...

He may not have the charisma or literary reputation of his father, but Stalin has learnt the lessons of history well.

Uncertainty over which of Russia's top two politicians would be a candidate has spurred $31.2 billion in capital flight

Cash-strapped North Korea demanded on Thursday that the United States pay almost $65 trillion in compensation for six decades of hostility.