President Vladimir Putin leads an elite increasing made up of KGB/FSB veterans (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) October 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- No one knows how many people were working for or with the KGB when ...

The Soviet Union’s all-embracing police system had its origin about 35 years ago as an extraordinary emergency commission, called the Cheka, to combat sabotage and counter-revolutionary activities, In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the All-Russian Emergency Commission, abbreviated as VChK and commonly known as Cheka, ...

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Last Thursday, the Kremlin’s primary propaganda news outlet, RT, sent out a gift to critics of President Vladimir Putin — a chocolate replica of Salisbury Cathedral. It is a gift with meaning — a ...

In the former Soviet Union, mention of the word "chekist" could make the hair on some people's necks stand up. Now, a pair of barbers in the Belarusian capital are hoping that same term -- for secret ...

A Russian general said a lot of interesting things. Interesting news is told by residents of Donetsk, who often visit a steam room in the pool of the former Dynamo sports centre together with an ...

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