"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Novelist Namwali Serpell, writing in The New Yorker recently, coined a phrase that’s lingered in my mind every day since.

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

This film takes viewers on a journey through the Soviet Union, showcasing the daily lives of ordinary people. It begins at a ...

Reagan had the vision and leadership to call USSR the “Evil Empire” without hesitation, and his greatness is admired every day, as his statue stands in Warsaw vis-a-vis the US embassy, he said. Former ...

Legendary avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died in Germany, where she spent more than 30 years of her life after ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...