Alternate track title: Standard of Revolt. A musical genealogy of Russia's near century-long struggle to break the tsarist yoke. All songs, save track 7 (Dubinushka), can be found on the flollowing ...

In Stalin’s Soviet Union, few artists balanced loyalty and rebellion like Dmitri Shostakovich. His early success with operas ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In a musty basement ...

Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that's as scathing as any tune in the folk legend's long career. "I'm ...

Three weeks into Russia’s war against Ukraine, the chorus and orchestra at Odesa’s opera house gathered outside the building to send a message to fellow Ukrainians, to the Russians and to the rest of ...

THE average American finds it difficult to explain why the foreigner says “ze” or “de,” rather than the perfectly natural (to him) “the" until he tries to enunciate an elegant French “rue” or gets his ...

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its ...

In the aftermath of World War Two, Soviet Union forces rounded up 570,000 Japanese soldiers and put them to work in concentration camps. They also captured an unknown number of Japanese civilians, ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among modern high-rises in the heart of Tel Aviv, a few hundred spectators are kindly requested to turn off their ...