A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

Germany boasts a rich cultural heritage, and one of its most visually striking aspects is its German costume tradition. From ...

After the war, during the Soviet era, speaking Tver Karelian became a source of embarrassment - it was associated with rural ...

The creative ensemble of Russia’s NP Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University took centre stage, with performances ...

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The Ukrainian band Yagódy takes centuries-old folk music traditions and reimagines them with four-part harmonies, propulsive ...

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are in Russian custody, some enduring torture—and there is no legal process for freeing them ...

The UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative was agreed by Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye and the UN in Istanbul in July 2022. It allowed more than 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs to leave Ukraine’s ...

Wrapped up in warm coats and woolly hats, hundreds of people have braved Moscow's chilly spring weather to form an orderly ...

Gunia wasn’t supposed to be a brand about Ukraine,” says co-founder Maria Gavryliuk in the company’s downtown Kyiv office as ...

At a street market near St. Andrew’s Church, a popular tourist site in Kyiv, Ukraine, a stall selling military memorabilia ...

Rising Xenophobic Harassment and Violence towards Central Asian Migrants in Russia,” documents that Central Asian migrants, ...