Sámi activist Valentina Sovkina, originally from the village of Lovozero in Russia’s Murmansk region, was forced to leave the country after a wave of searches targeting indigenous rights activists.

March 5 marks significant historical events, including the Boston Massacre in 1770, which fueled the American Revolution.

This episode traces the Soviet secret police from the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, and finally the KGB, showing how a security apparatus evolved into a system built on surveillance, ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator ...

On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...

Discover March 5's rich history, from Churchill's 1946 Iron Curtain speech and the 1770 Boston Massacre to Stalin's 1953 death and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy, and now the war of choice against Iran, are sharpening an older divide between ...

In the world of global power, where secret networks intertwine with personal ambitions, figures like Jeffrey Epstein represent the modern archetype of a manipulator who uses influence, money, and ...

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...

Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead ...

Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict.

Notwithstanding this, AOC seems to think that the antidote to America’s ailments is but more foreign entanglements in the service of combating “authoritarianism” and in the name of a “class-based ...