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On the main road to Russia, the combat vehicles – some of them British – trundle forward. In the Russian town of Sudzha, Ukrainian troops dig in and prepare for a counterattack. Askold Krushelnycky reports from Kursk

Kyiv destroys key bridge on Seym river in bid to protect gains inside Russia

Accusations abound after Russian military plane carrying Ukrainian PoWs crashes; Lenin 100 years dead but a thorn in Putin’s side

Beneath a fading portrait of Vladimir Lenin, on Sunday, over a thousand anganwadi workers in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada went on strike against the government’s unwillingness to increase salaries. Behind the portrait, 15 women lay down on the dais, among whom 13 had been fasting for five days continuously. Two among…

Dozens of Russian communists gathered in Red Square on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's death, in one of the few official events commemorating the Soviet founder.

On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors.

Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past.

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.