The 1943 exhumation of a mass grave of Polish officers killed by the NKVD in the Katyn Forest in 1940.Photo: Unknown, probably Polish Red Cross delegation, uploaded by Andros64, Public domain ...

For example, Pringle identifies the NKVD officer Lev Shwartzman as “head of the Chief Economic Department,” whereas the investigation documents say he was deputy head of the Investigation ...

By early November Ukraine still occupied over a thousand square kilometers of Russian territory and the Russians were still unprepared to oust the Ukrainians. By early 2025 Russian forces had retaken ...

People accused of treason, espionage, extremism, and terrorism could soon end up in detention centres controlled by Russia's ...

In today's Ukraine, people's greatest fear can be evoked by a single word: TCK. Not even the mention of a Russian missile, a ...

The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon Ukraine.

But the Chinese system differs in one important respect from the Russian: Stalin’s NKVD and MVD worked in ... among the students at the Communist officers’ school in order to expose their ...