“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

"Kalinka" is a Russian song made famous by performances of the Red Army Choir. The ensemble, which has toured widely around ...

Indrek Spungin's 'Happiness Is Living in Our Land' tells the story of Estonian punks, while Emilis Vėlyvis' 'BIX Almost ...

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is ...

The 2023–2029 Language Policy Concept aims to expand the use of Kazakh across science, IT, media, and governance, including ...

The Soviet Union suffered between 321,000 and 381,000 casualties. And one Finnish soldier named Simo Häyhä played a huge part in those numbers. Born in 1905, Häyhä joined the Finnish voluntary militia ...

Russian security forces are strengthening their influence in northern Norway — and sowing division within the country.

The built legacy of the Soviet Bloc is undergoing a dramatic reappraisal, from crumbling concrete brutalism to Instagrammable ...

Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, the grandson of the Soviet Armenian politician Anastas Ivanovich (Hovhannesi) Mikoyan (1895-1978 ...

In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, Arizona. I stood in line to squint through telescopes at Jupiter and the ...

ORTA, a theater production company from Kazakhstan, presented its performance “The New Genius Experience of the Great Atomic ...