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Battling rappers hit funny bone

Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori Rasputin.

Putin: Red Army losses in Finland to be honored

Putin said Thursday at a meeting with military historians that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin launched the war to "correct mistakes" made in drawing the border with Finland after the 1917 Bolshevik...

Russia marks 60th anniversary of Stalin's death

"An opinion survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment has revealed Stalin has remained widely admired in Russia and other ex-Soviet nations despite his repressions.

Carnegie: Stalin still admired in ex-Soviet lands

An even higher admiration of Stalin is seen in his homeland, Georgia, where 45 percent of respondents expressed a positive view of him.

U.S. violating human rights of Texans, Belarus claims

"The sharply worded report is a slap at Western nations that have compared 58-year-old Belarusian strongman Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Russian wardens throw party for Stalin's gulag

Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps was cause for a celebration in Russia.

Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition

When Stalin was in power, he decided personally which films could be shown and which were to be stashed "on the shelf."

Zhu Ruifeng, journalist who revealed corruption in Chongqing, worries China...

Mao was displeased in 1956 when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev condemned an infamous predecessor, Joseph Stalin, for having "practiced brutal violence, not only toward everything which opposed...

City renames itself Stalingrad to mark battle

The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's rejection of dictator Joseph Stalin's personality cult.

Stalin's birthday marked in Russia and beyond

In Moscow, several hundred Russian Communists laid flowers at Stalin's grave at the Red Square Friday, while smaller rallies were held across Russia and several former Soviet republics.

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Russia's Putin restores Stalin-era labor award

Russia's Putin restores Stalin-era labor award

Putin: order and discipline not a sign of Stalinism

For many Russians, that designation clearly evokes the Stalin era.

UPDATE 1-Putin: order and discipline not a sign of Stalinism

For many Russians, that designation clearly evokes the Stalin era.