The era of the Cold War had seen a different G2 — the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union — and nations were forced to align ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

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By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing ...

Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that is why in today's Russian ideological labyrinth, in which chauvinism is ...

A police officer has been arrested for allegedly making disappear, in 1980, the glove of the killer who murdered Piersanti ...

Finland’s Stubb told Firstpost that Ukraine must decide how to end the war with Russia but should “learn from our mistake,” ...

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The Korean Central News Agency said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to ...

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, ...