Eduard Andryushchenko is a correspondent for Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
A folder in Ukraine's KGB Archive reveals the glittering wealth, and shocking punishment dealt out to an allegedly corrupt fruit merchant in Kyiv.
Lenin. Trotsky. Gorky. When Russia's revolutionary A-listers were conjured up from the dead by a group of Soviet spiritists, the secret police took notice.
A newly declassified 1979 memo gives intriguing details about the Ukrainian KGB's efforts to thwart a "plot by Western security agencies" to undermine the Soviet Union by importing subversive literature into the country under the framework of the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
Newly declassified documents from the KGB archive in Ukraine shed light on how one leg of a 1947 journey to the Soviet Union by U.S. writer John Steinbeck and noted war photojournalist Robert Capa went down.
