The Moscow Times, an anti-Kremlin Russian outlet, reports that he is under arrest, somewhat ironically, at Russia’s Lefortovo detention center. The prison is infamous as the site of torture and mass ...

Writing under pseudonyms, a Soviet historian and a German scientist undertake an analysis of the great purges of 1936-1939 in which they were both involved. Russian Purge and the Extraction of ...

In The Great Purge of 1937, dictator Joseph Stalin eliminated dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. We are reliving this now. Eliminating the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's purge of his top military officials continued this week with the arrest of Andrei Belkov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Military Construction Company ...

Large-scale "purges" are underway in Russia in the aftermath of a mutiny attempt by Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24, a U.S.-based think tank has said.