Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the October 1917 Russian Revolution.

Filmmaker Roman Liberov uses film, music and poetry to bring to life the struggles of Russian artists caught up in their country’s politics.

As Russia continues to bombard cities and towns across Ukraine, Russian officials have hardened their position against a ceasefire, continuing to repeat the obscure demand that the war’s "root causes" be addressed before agreeing to any truce.

Millions of people know there is something deeply wrong with the system. On Palestine marches, thousands chant, “One Solution—Revolution”.

Serhiy Nigoyan’s name is hardly known outside Ukraine, but the 20-year-old is celebrated in a mural in the capital, Kyiv, and in Ukrainian songs, while the country’s leaders laid flowers at the Hrushevskoho Street memorial on the anniversary of his killing on 20 January 2014.

Ukraine’s capital came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack overnight and into early Saturday that left at least 15 people injured, according to Ukrainian officials.

"Our people have fought for the right to live ... It continued under the Soviets after the Russian Revolution and in 1944, the Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia. They were only allowed ...

People used to say that ... you know how Rachmaninoff was a refugee from Russia because of the Russian Revolution? You basically have the same thing happening now in Russia because of their ...