New KGB files reveal how Estonia's first president, Konstantin Päts, and military chief Gen. Johan Laidoner — and their ...

Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...

In the mid-1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had three high-placed moles inside the KGB, the Soviet Union’s state security and intelligence apparatus. When they were suddenly arrested and ...

Discover two of World War II's most incredible and untold stories of the B-25 Mitchell. First, uncover the critical wing ...

LIEPAJA, Latvia (Reuters) - "Face the wall and stop looking around!" a prison guard shouts at inmates in a cell at a prison inside Karosta, a military naval base in Latvia. As people line up along the ...

Since its establishment under the Russian empire, Lukiškės Prison has transformed from a bleak place of torture and murder to a bastion of culture. People attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at ...

Aleksandr Skobov has been a thorn in the side of authoritarian governments for more than four decades, from the Soviet era to President Vladimir Putin's long rule. And now, in pretrial detention in St ...

Eduard Kuznetsov - Soviet-Israeli dissident, refusenik, journalist, and writer. Eduard Kuznetsov, a prominent Soviet-Israeli prisoner of Zion, dissident and journalist, died in Israel today at the age ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to ...

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