"By the early '60s, the factory was releasing music from all over Central Asia ... By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all, the Soviet Union, was set to shutter its doors.

In the polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been ... Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week ...

She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt ... defied Soviet dogma with her openly religious music and after decades of suppression moved to the ...

Many forms of music were forbidden in the Soviet Union, especially in the first years of the Cold War. Western jazz and rock-and-roll were deemed the music of the enemy; Russian-émigré pop ...

Sofia Gubaidulina: her music was labelled ‘irresponsible’ by the Soviet authorities for its exploration of unorthodox tunings - Marcello Mencarini/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Alamy ...

Russian senator, Liliya Gumerova, told state media that Intervision would "promote real music" and reject "fake values that are alien to any normal person." Launched under the former Soviet leader ...