In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional. In 2011, the U.S. Interior ...

February 25 highlights Khrushchev’s Secret Speech exposing Stalin’s crimes, plus key moments in politics, art, and science ...

A Texas death row inmate who gained notoriety after a brazen escape from jail has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, ...

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

Party insiders say M K Stalin and Mamata Banerjee had advised Akhilesh to engage I-PAC for the high stakes contest.

The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...

Aiayar says Stalin is 'best-suited' to be the convenor of the INDIA bloc, asserting that a smaller partner in the saddle ...

ON FEBRUARY 24 1956, 10 days after it opened in Moscow, delegates to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s (CPSU) 20th ...

After surrendering to American forces in May 1945, General Andrei Vlasov and thousands of his Russian Liberation Army ...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu will introduce a co-ordinated single-window counselling system for PhD admissions across all state-run universities under the high.

The Petlyakov Pe-2 was not born in freedom. It was designed inside Stalin’s secret prison laboratories by engineers who were one mistake away from execution. When Nazi Germany invaded in 1941, this ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...