Politics Insider for Oct. 12, 2021: The finance minister’s notable past; Premier François Legault’s power; and a Canadian Nobel prize winner
Scott Gilmore: It’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and its military is nothing next to the U.S., yet it’s winning at one thing: upending the world order
Author Anne Applebaum, an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe, says Russia still denies that Holodomor ever happened
The Vavilov brothers were born in Canada to deep-cover Soviet agents, so Ottawa stripped them of their citizenship. Inside their fight to finally come home.
Juliet Butler on the suffering and resilience of Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, two mismatched souls bound up in the same body
Sergei Lebedev’s debut novel deploys surrealism and poetry as he ventures into the Gulag, seeking answers
The Maisky Diaries provides a rare glimpse into Stalin’s Soviet Union
Svetlana Alliluyeva spent a lifetime trying to escape the shadow of her father. Patricia Treble speaks to her biographer, Rosemary Sullivan
Ukraine isn’t the only place Russia has its eye on. Soviet nostalgia is gripping Europe’s ‘de facto states.’
Russia’s power is re-emerging everywhere
‘Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking’ requires mayonnaise. Lots of it.
Europe’s highest court bans the hammer and sickle from being trademarked