The female victim was reportedly one of his postgraduate students who also co-authored some of his works A prominent Russian historian has allegedly confessed to killing a former student after ...

A leading Russian military historian and acclaimed expert on Napoleon was jailed for twelve-and-a-half years today for murdering and dismembering his student lover. Professor Oleg Sokolov, 64, shot ...

To receive Steve Gutterman's Week In Russia each week via e-mail, subscribe by clicking here. Beneath the grisly details of graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko’s killing lies a more banal, less ...

MOSCOW -- In battlefield reenactments, he played Napoleon. And it was as Napoleon that he planned to die, reports said, killing himself in full costume in front of tourists at St. Petersburg’s Peter ...