When Ruslan’s left leg was shot clean off just below the knee by a Russian anti-tank missile, his initial reaction was to ask a comrade to shoot him dead. “Not today,” was the unhelpful reply.

When I was interviewing Russians for the documentary It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire, marking 100 years since the Revolution and 100 years of the black humour that era ...

A Russian white officer told the famous writer Maxim Gorky that ... "Without assessing the injuries, the occupier shot his comrade and fled. It's surprising how simply, even cold-bloodedly ...

“I don’t go to Canada anymore. I don’t. I’d rather go to Russia.” I guess chicken wire and smoky hospitals trump third-world healthcare. Rogan may not be welcome after this anti-Putin ...