When the NKVD came to deport his lover Tony to Siberia, Bruno Sudkus defied all reason and signed voluntary exile papers, ...

At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the Soviet Union – ed.) and KGB officers who did not fight during World ...

The 18th of July, 1942, was a hot summer day in Krasnodar, a city in the Russian Caucasus, near the Black Sea. On that day, as my grandfather Mark Nikolaevich Medish was taking a Sunday afternoon ...

Branded a terrorist by the NKVD, Bruno Sudkus survived torture and a staged trial before joining the Lithuanian forest ...

One day in New York, in the winter of 1940-1941, a Soviet spy named Jacob Golos recruited Ernest Hemingway “for our work.” Golos was a colorful old Bolshevik, a lifelong revolutionary who had escaped ...

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 ...

The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. Words matter. And they particularly matter when they are uttered by somebody as powerful as the second-in-command ...

It's Victory Day, there's a parade, and you're a top Belarusian official. What do you wear? If you're President Alyaksandr Lukashenka or a member of his entourage, you go with the reliable standard: ...

After a social media storm the restaurant no longer had the name "NKVD" on the wall A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era ...