Giancarlo Guerrero, who will take over as music director of Orchestra in the fall, leads the Masterworks program 'Heroic ...

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The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country ...

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Walk around any Russian city, from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Yekaterinburg and Kazan, and you will come across ...

After a childhood in Russia in which Yaroshevskaya was deprived of owning a doll, she went on to embody one on television as Fanfreluche as she read from, riffed on and interpreted children’s fairy ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

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Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.