Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the ...

The tragedy of Stalin’s purges still looms large over Russian society. Online users are busy debating whether a young man from Tomsk was in the right when he decided to find out who was responsible ...

ONE WHO SURVIVED—The Life Story of a Russian under the Soviets—Alexander Barmine—Putnam ($3.75). Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia’s secret ...

Tamara Grechukhina was 15 years old in 1938 when her father was locked up by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police. Soon afterward, her mother died of tuberculosis. The family's property was ...

Prosecutor Osinski took part in an international conference devoted to the so-called Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937-1938 (see: NOTE) and organised at Warsaw's Belvedere Palace. The event was ...

The Russian Supreme Court has deemed lawful a 1995 presidential decree that classified information about NKVD employees involved in Stalin-era repressions. As reported by Novaya Gazeta, this decision ...