A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

Russia’s education minister on Wednesday accused fellow former Soviet republics of presenting what Moscow deems to be a ...

Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre ...

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union, once a powerful force in technological development, found itself far behind the United States ...

Some places are very strict when it comes to the power of music, and they are quick to ban anything that they think could ...

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

Today is 38 years since Ronald Reagan’s ‘tear down this wall’ speech, which ushered in the most free and fair election Russia ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

Inspired by the rock and funk dominating the Western charts, Russia's Ariel found fame in the Soviet Union for frontman Valery Yarushin's colourful popcraft.

Mikhail Brat, shown in a recent family photo, was a beloved violinist who played with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra ...