Three men whose achievements are being recognized for their role in changing the world are the inaugural winners of the Gorbachev awards.
Ask a group of Russians where they'll be vacationing this summer and chances are they'll all give the same answer: Ukraine.
Russia's lower house of parliament has approved a resolution recognizing that Josef Stalin's regime was responsible for the 1940 massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers, signaling a thawing of relations between Poland and Russia, state media reported.
Long-time Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov accused President Dmitry Medvedev of leading Russia back into Stalinism a day before he was sacked, a letter in a Russian magazine showed Wednesday.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on how and why the Kremlin has dismissed Moscow's mayor.
In October, 2000, Jerry Flint, then a columnist for Forbes magazine, gave a speech to 150 engineers and technicians at the General Motors proving ground in Milford, Michigan.
Millions of Russians have been poring over once secret documents relating to the 1940 execution of nearly 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police.
A judge in several high-profile cases was gunned down Monday as he walked out of his apartment to go to work, officials said.
A TV station in Georgia triggers panic when it broadcasts a mock report about a Russian invasion. CNN's Ivan Watson reports
A television station in Georgia triggered a panic when it broadcast a mock half-hour report about a Russian invasion of the country.
A former commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan has warned history is being repeated in the war-ravaged country as the United States and its allies become increasingly mired in an "unwinnable war."
A judge says an 89-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes is healthy enough for trial. Diana Magnay reports.
Alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk had no choice but to bring Jews to their deaths in extermination camps, Demjanjuk's defense argued Monday as his long-awaited trial got under way.
Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev on Pres. Obama, plus the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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