Ukraine is headed for a messy, quick-fix ceasefire – which is unlikely to deliver long term peace in eastern Europe. A likely ...

Proclaimed scarcely three months ago, the coroner’s verdict on Vyacheslav Molotov seemed final. “A political corpse!” shouted the chief of the Soviet secret police to the cheering delegates ...

Playwrights who work for decades often acquire a moniker. In the case of Howard Brenton, who began his career as a ...

Security forces detained a teenager who tried to set fire to the administrative building of a gunpowder factory in Kazan by ...

Churchill and Stalin get lost in translation but bond over a shared love of booze and ruthlessness in Howard Brenton’s clever ...

Winston Churchill’s fateful meeting with Joseph Stalin in 1942 makes a pithy chamber piece at London’s Orange Tree theatre ...

“You can get a grandmother to throw a Molotov cocktail into a military office or wherever you want – if your price is right.” Although Russia’s pensioner arsonists are often duped or ...

Police in Moldova say a man threw Molotov cocktails at the Russian Embassy in the capital, Chisinau, while Russian voters were lining up outside the building on the presidential election day.

Moscow a top-secret meeting occured between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin as the Nazis rampaged through Europe and into ...

Large crowds in Ramallah greet ex-detainees freed to West Bank; IDF raids prisoners' to warn families against celebrating ...