MOSCOW – The Moscow city legislature has agreed to allow residents to decide whether the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, should be restored to a square in central ...

A statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, has been erected in Moscow at the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Radio Free Europe/Radio ...

MOSCOW - The Moscow city legislature on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a popular vote on whether to restore the statue of the Soviet secret police's founder to a square in central Moscow, but the ...

MOSCOW – Moscow election officials have cleared the way for a popular vote on whether to restore a statue of the Soviet secret police's founder to a square in central Moscow. The statue of Felix ...

WASHINGTON — In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and ...

The city of Nakhodka in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky region has become the latest locality in the country to put up a new statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police. Our only ...

In August 1991, with a failed hardline coup in fading memory, thousands of Muscovites ended a pro-democracy march at Lubyanka Square with a gesture that would come to frame the moment of history. The ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the ...