There were unpleasant scenes outside the Russian Foreign Ministry as the British charge d’affaires, Danae Dholakia, left the ...

Moscow-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s health is in question, and speculation about succession is rife. The Kremlin wants to keep Chechnya quiet, especially amid the war on Ukraine. Kadyrov ...

Presented at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision, the new Dramanation projects play off powerful IP and A-List talent from Sweden and ...

Donald Trump’s public appearances are raising concern among researchers.

The Soviet Union spent more than 40 years trying to achieve what has just been handed to Vladimir Putin on a plate.

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

We don't know if Maduro’s ousting will make freedom ring for oppressed Venezuelans, but that message would resonate worldwide ...

It’s a feature of authoritarian regimes: a patina of reasonableness, swiftly followed by brutal crackdown, R. Bruce Anderson ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over Nikita Khrushchev’s grave at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery stands a memorial made of two interlocking ...

In late August 1989 I travelled to Czechoslovakia by train via East Germany to witness the 21st anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring. People spoke about the beauty of Prague but few Irish people had ...

Today marks 40 years since the UK release of A Letter To Brezhnev, a classic Liverpool set film that helped skyrocket the careers of its young cast. The romantic comedy offers a snapshot into life in ...

Today marks 40 years since Liverpool classic Letter to Brezhnev arrived in UK cinemas and you can watch the film on BBC iPlayer to mark the occasion. The 1985 film holds a special place in the heart ...