The prime minister and his chancellor have already made their toughest decision of all: to keep a tight squeeze on public ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia's far east. Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After Stalin had completed The Great Terror, a stupefying mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people – with even more sent to ...

Kier Group said pretax profit and revenue rose, driven by a strong operational delivery across its divisions, and that its fiscal year had started well and in line with the board's expectations ...

Chief executive Andrew Davies says firm will soon be cash positive at end of every month having once posted monthly debts of close to £450m Kier produced its best set of results since Andrew Davies ...

“Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, is being adapted for film. The feature is ...

We'll use ROE to examine Kier Group plc (LON:KIE), by way of a worked example. Return on equity or ROE is an important factor to be considered by a shareholder because it tells them how ...