Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are such tiny countries that if Russia wished to take a ...

Glasnost: When Julie Smolyansky met former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, he recalled Lifeway and her father. According to Smolyansky, Gorbachev told her: “We’re so proud of you.

Under perestroika and glasnost, the cultural and political thaws promoted by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, many of Solzhenitsyn’s books were legally published in the country for the ...

The new Pope Leo XIV must deal with myriad issues confronting Catholicism, but anyone expecting radical change in its fundamental teachings will be disappointed. In a world where information is ...

After glasnost, when he revised his old book, his publisher asked him to come up with a snappy new title. His friend Kingsley Amis suggested I Told You So You Fucking Fools .

Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, its defining choreographer and the single most influential ...

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