Gorbachev says Stalin crimes whitewashed
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MOSCOW - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned yesterday against whitewashing the crimes of dictator Josef Stalin, stressing that Russia cannot move forward without facing the truth about its bloody past.
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President Putin says allegations that ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko died as a result of deliberate action are baseless.
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Russian military prosecutors say a report highlighting widespread bullying and violence against conscripts in the Russian Army is an exaggeration.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - A court here has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment. The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard. Most of the murders were committed over five years in Bittsa Park, in Moscow's southern suburbs.  Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder. Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006. His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say. Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.
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NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was an act of aggression rather than an attempt to save ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov told Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial Monday.
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HAMBURG -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday called for a ''clear and careful analysis&quot; of last week's hostage drama at a school in southern Russia and argued that parliament should be involved in the investigation.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the trial as "utter nonsense." Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent a plea to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asking him to help spare the defendant from a Siberian prison camp.
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He s calling the prosecution s case against him a "distortion of history." That charge today as Slobodan Milosevic (sloh-BOH -dahn mee-LOH -shuh-vich) presented an opening statement at his war crimes trial in ...
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The remains of nearly three dozen people unearthed in Moscow are probably at least 100 years old, contradicting earlier indications that they could have been victims of Josef Stalin's political purges, an investigator said Thursday.
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Tsezar Kats thought it was a Soviet parade as he marched with Jews out to Ukraine's Babi Yar ravine in 1941, but the absence of balloons and red Soviet flags puzzled the 4-year-old.     Then he saw the piles of ...Comment
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested punishing subordinates who criticized military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, declassified documents show.
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U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz compared the crimes of Saddam Hussein to the atrocities of the Nazi and Stalinist eras in a speech in Warsaw on Tuesday, and argued that the Sept.
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Fresh controversy has hit the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic with a claim from a senior intelligence analyst that the Yugoslav leader is innocent of genocide.
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Russia's military prosecutor said Thursday that Human Rights Watch was mistaken in its accusations of widespread hazing in the military and said Russia had already made serious efforts to combat the problem.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev  said on Tuesday he supported tough measures taken by Russian  President Vladimir Putin and wished he had adopted them.
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PC Magazine - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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By Bill Condie, Evening Standard, London  Feb. 7--In a bid to stem a PR disaster in Russia, Microsoft today told  former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that it is not responsible for the  prosecution of a poor headmaster for buying pirated Windows software.