Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa’s film follows a naive young lawyer as he attempts to navigate his country’s legal system.

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...

The scale of Secretary General Xi Jinping’s military purges is shocking. More than 100 senior leaders have been removed since ...

Throughout time, certain figures have been deliberately cut out of the historical record - not by accident, but by design. More often than not, powerful forces decide that certain truths are too ...

Monaco's 'Playboy Prince' - who turns 68 today -cuts a rather solitary figure after he severed ties with the four men who ...