For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor ...

Taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Andrei Kozlov is pouring his experience in captivity onto ...

Richard Russo, whose class-based novels are often based in upstate New York, is out with a collection of essays called “Life ...

Dmitry Krymov, a seventy-year-old theatre director ... and his allies.” Russian audiences don’t want an exclusive diet of heavy, morose, emotionally draining art on themes of war and sacrifice.

Throughout Marc Fogel’s 3½ years of imprisonment in Russia ... “And the power of art and the power of community to make this happen.” Fogel’s nearly 96-year-old mother, Malphine Fogel ...

The 28-year-old was later sentenced to 20 years in jail. His case illustrates the severity of the crackdown on dissent -- both real and imagined -- in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.

During the summer, to the delight of Russian and foreign tourists alike, many of the old wooden churches and onion-domed cathedrals that dot the Soviet countryside were opened to the public.

In total, the Russian billionaire spent $2 billion on the deals. Sanford Heller, founder of the art advisory organization The Heller ... co-chairman of Sotheby’s “Old Masters” department, to the stand ...

Some live on savings or money from relatives, others sell their art or work online - though one Russian said that source of income had dried up. "At first I worked remotely. And then my company ...

Russia's war on Ukraine saw that partnership end, and the museum renamed as H'ART. All visitors to Amsterdam ... or "Nursing Home for Old Women." In the early 2000s, the building was rededicated ...

But when the next crisis came, both the United States and the governments of Europe fell back on old models of alliance leadership. The immediate cause was, of course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.