Beginning in 1936, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin set about deliberately murdering 700,000 people in the Great Purge, an act of mass killing that “constituted a form of rule” unto itself, ...

Shoigu was demoted from his longtime role as defense minister in May 2024 and made the secretary of Russia's Security Council. The "purge" of senior officials in the defense ministry and military ...

But, one year on, a Kremlin-backed purge of the army has started. And this tells us something about Vladimir Putin. The Russian president is averse to acting under pressure. Order him to sack a ...

TASS/. Russia used to live by someone else’s rules, an is going through a purge now, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "What happened in the previous years was largely because we ...