Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

Before meeting her death, each sister knelt before their prioress who gave them permission to die. The prioress was the last ...

Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, now finds herself at the center of a growing ...

It didn’t take any courage for outgoing President Joe Biden, in the last few weeks of his White House residency, to pardon ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

A recent exhibition, rescued from the Russian bombardment of Kyiv, aims to carve out a Ukrainian story from the complex ...

Soviet politicians, military officers, professionals — people who opposed or criticized Stalin — were alleged to be “enemies of the people” and imprisoned or executed by the NKVD.

The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary ... they are known as the “Executed Renaissance,” pioneering literary artists whose lives were snuffed out by Stalin’s brutal purges in ...

At the time, Soviet leaders reportedly feared that Beria would use his control of the secret police to fully seize power. Beria was later tried and convicted of treason and was executed in Moscow ...

One "Reagan" feature film actor, a Soviet-era immigrant ... sent to labor camps or brutally executed for being disloyal to the regime." The film, however, also showcased the love story between ...