Getty Images; Pixabay That corpulent man wearing a pince-nez remains one of the most symbolic faces of Joseph Stalin’s era. Lavrentiy Beria was calculating and vicious, hard-working and hedonist – and ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, to one of the former Soviet Union’s most feared secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria ...

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

Russia's state archive has published formerly top secret Soviet-era documents on the April 1940 Katyn massacre on its website. They include a key letter to then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from secret ...

Ukrainian officials have announced a criminal investigation into Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria, for the mass deportation of Muslim Tatars from the Crimean ...

Lavrenti Beria has entered history's demonology as the last head of Stalin's secret police, the chosen heir to a long line of murderers and torturers. Nikita Khrushchev went further, constructing an ...

Steve Buscemi, Adrian McLoughlin, Jeffrey Tambor, Dermot Crowley, and Simon Russell Beale in The Death of Stalin. Credit: Nicola Dove Black comedy doesn’t get any blacker than The Death of Stalin, ...

Lavrenty Beria was responsible for the death of millions of Russians but is now a morbid sideshow, writes Julius Strauss in Moscow In the oak-panelled office where he plotted his victims' fate, a ...