Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. An ...

"It's Popova, not popover," says Julia Popova, a Russian native who has been living in Troy since August 2008. One would not be surprised to find a popover in Popova's kitchen, however; she is an avid ...

Venezuela's air defenses failed to down a single American aircraft, though experts said that could be more credit to US proficiency than the systems' own failures.

Russia’s economic problems caused by the sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine provide lessons for U.S. trade and immigration policies. Blocking imports and new workers seem like good ideas ...

Roman Abramovich (left), shown here with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was recently sanctioned by Britain but received an award from the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in 2018 for ...

School is in session via “Russian Lessons,” an exceptionally instructive but awkwardly structured docu that fingers the former Soviet Union for the ethnic cleansing of neighboring Georgians, and the ...