Stalin

Two of Russia?s most iconic historical figures came to blows close to Moscow?s Red Square when a Stalin double allegedly attacked a Lenin lookalike over a work dispute, police said on July 7. 

The Moscow metro celebrated its 80th anniversary this month. When it first opened to the public in 1935 it served as a showcase of Stalin’s “Brave New World”, combining state-of-the-art mass transport and opulence with a politically skewed artistic and architectural design favored by the dictator’s regime.

World-renowned Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya has died at the age of 89. TASS has reported.

The Russian news agency quoted Bolshoi Theater Director General Vladimir Urin as saying Plisetskaya's composer husband Rodion Shchedrin has called him to say Plisetskaya has died of a heart failure in Germany on Saturday.

President Klaus Iohannis will pay an official visit to Ukraine on Tuesday; he will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.

Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES PHOTO

The Presidential Administration has announced that Iohannis will hold a press conference at the Henri Coanda airport of Otopeni, near Bucharest, around 8.45am, before leaving.

BELGRADE - By a decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, 14 Serbian World War II veterans have been decorated on occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day, a national holiday in the Russian Federation.

Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin presented the decorations late Thursday at a ceremonial reception he hosted to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

A Red Army officer who fought for the French Resistance before being sent to the Gulag by Soviet authorities has died aged 95, officials said on Dec. 8.

Nikolai Vasenin died a few months after learning that the French love he lost 70 years ago had also passed away.

In an interview to AGERPRES under the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, actor Valentin Teodosiu talks about the Bucharest of his childhood, calling it 'exceptional,' admitting that he would not move out even if his emotions now are not that high as they used to be back then.

BELGRADE - Hundreads of people from all over the former Yugoslavia marked the 35th anniversary of the death of former president of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito by visiting the House of Flowers in Belgrade on Sunday, where Tito and his wife Jovanka Broz are buried.

Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros, one of several of the neofascist party's MPs facing charges as part of a criminal probe, has hailed Adolf Hitler as "a great personality" in an interview with Australian television program 60 Minutes and has said GD would have solved all of Greece's problems if it had taken the law into its hands.