Race for the Superbomb | Article Russian Politicians, Officials and Administrators Lavrentii Beria, (1899 - 1953) Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality.

Michael Olden and Shafiq Beria, the owners of a company that performed a fake “credit sweep” service through reverse identity theft were sentenced Tuesday to up to six years in prison.

Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy chief of the Soviet secret police and was head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, according to the Atomic Heritage ...

Beria was Minister of Internal Affairs — which absorbed the MGB after Stalin’s death — and first deputy prime minister. Most important, he controlled an army of sorts, armed personnel who ...

MOSCOW -- Russia's Rosatom atomic energy agency plans to put up two statues of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's notorious secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, considered by many as a key force behind ...

Duckworth, $26.95 (397pp) ISBN 978-0-7156-3062-4 Lavrenti Beria has entered history's demonology as the last head of Stalin's secret police, the chosen heir to a long line of murderers and torturers.