Russian Articles

Crime, Punishment, And Aspot Of Cluedo In The Dacha

WHO KILLED STALIN? 8.30pm, ABC1: You! The boy in the green blazer! Out with it, laddie! If someone did indeed kill Joseph Stalin before the Grim Reaper could get to him, that person should be celebrated by the Russian people and the global community as a hero. Conventional wisdom has..read more

Patriarch Plugged In To Power

PATRIARCH ALEKSY II RUSSIAN ORTHODOX LEADER 23-2-1929 - 5-12-2008

The Courage Of Individuals Is The Currency Of Our Freedom

I saw Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya speak at the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2006. She was direct and eloquent, and five months later, she was assassinated.

World Barracks For Barack

MANY politicians are more popular outside their own countries than at home. Mikhail Gorbachev is still lauded in the West as the architect of perestroika, the bringer of glasnost, the man who peacefully ended the Cold War. In Russia he was regarded as the man who spoke bad Russian who..read more

Indian Grandmaster Outfoxes Russian For World Crown

Cricket-mad Indians have another sporting hero to rank with Tendulkar. Matt Wade reports from Delhi. Viswanathan Anand,