Like Stalin, Putin has nurtured a climate of fear and lawlessness, in which those who rally behind the Kremlin feel a duty to eliminate the leader’s opponents however they can, says Nina L Khrushcheva

Builders renovating a Moscow house have unearthed more than 30 bodies apparently dating back to the era of Josef Stalin’s political purges.

Workers rebuilding a 19th century Moscow house dug up the remains of nearly three dozen people and investigators were trying to determine their identities, a city police official said Thursday.

Poisoned former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko met two other Russian agents in Moscow in 1998 to make an extraordinary video in which they claimed their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap and frame prominent Russians.