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.
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.
