Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, is set for a new five-year term in an election that an exiled opposition leader describes as "a farce".

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

Before the Mexican artist Diego Rivera became famous for his monumental, socially engaged murals, he traveled to Europe and ...

All the colonies around the world had to pay the highest price for liberating themselves from the shackles of colonisation.

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

Twenty-three years had passed since Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s death ... At last week’s memorial ceremonies, a huge, floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow’s Bolshoi ...

The vendor himself had adorned his kiosk with portraits of the dream team – Lenin, Stalin, Gagarin, Vysotsky – as well as Russia’s Soviet-style strongman, Vladimir Putin. When I asked why ...