Director Zhanana Kurmasheva discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, along with producer Banu Ramazanova: "Why we are so indifferent to each other?" ...

Wordplay, tradition and politics swirl around a collective of performers attempting to define ‘contemporary art’ in ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

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Discourses of "realism ... soviet areas (also known as revolutionary base areas) were formed as a direct reaction to the violent government crackdown on membership of left-wing organisations that had ...

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...

MOSCOW--Kazakhstan authorities said Sunday that 164 people, including a 4-year-old girl, were killed in a week of protests that marked the worst unrest since the former Soviet republic gained ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He ...

The legacy of Soviet artistic policies, particularly the tension between Socialist Realism and nonconformist resistance, continues to resonate profoundly in contemporary Georgian art and society.

During the 20th century, Kazakhstan became a sanctuary for millions uprooted by Soviet-era deportations. Between the 1930s and 1952, at least six million people — Koreans, Germans, Poles, Finns, ...