After several days of suspense, the Russians did, finally, come to the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, bringing with them the widely anticipated, much-delayed documentary ”The Bells of ...

KAMENSK-URALSKY, Russia — On the November day when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was buried back in 1982, priests say the Kremlin ordered every church bell in the country to be rung in remembrance. It ...

MOSCOW – More than 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is still recovering from damage done to its churches and monasteries. Last week, the church and its ...

It’s finally back to Russia for a set of antique Russian bells that have been on the Harvard University campus since 1930. After escaping imminent destruction by Soviet authorities, the bells have ...

”The Bells of Chernobyl,” a hotly anticipated Soviet-made documentary on Russia`s 1986 nuclear accident, mysteriously failed to arrive in time for its scheduled Saturday screening at the 37th Berlin ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked a surge of refugees fleeing the war zone, but political repression and economic uncertainty have also prompted emigration from Russia itself .

MOSCOW: The Commonwealth of Independent States, an organization loosely uniting all former Soviet republics minus the three Baltic states, was always fragile to begin with, but with three consecutive ...

Somewhere in the vast land area that is or was the Soviet Union and on its ships at sea, there are still 4 million military personnel, 27,000 nuclear warheads and thousands of tanks, aircraft, ...

Robertas Narkus, the artist set to represent Lithuania in Venice this spring, was at an anti-war demonstration near the Ukrainian embassy in the capital of Vilnius earlier this month holding ...