The Museum of Russian Icons was founded in 2006 as a nonprofit educational institution by Massachusetts art collector and industrialist Gordon B. Lankton. The Museum collects and exhibits icons ...

The icon is an integral part of not only Russian culture, but also of Europe during the Middle Ages, which had a different chronological timeline than in Russia. Unlike Western European countries ...

An elderly Ukrainian woman brandishing a red Soviet flag has become the unlikely face of Kremlin propaganda after a video of her encounter with Ukrainian soldiers went viral. The BBC tracked down ...

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But it found it necessary, for the purpose of deceiving the working class, to maintain the formal identification of the Soviet Union with the struggle against imperialism. Now, seeking to secure ...

The outcome of the elections in the Soviet Union has laid bare the almost universal disdain and contempt in which the Stalinist bureaucracy is held. The Stalinists suffered humiliating defeats in ...

Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin has died aged 59 after a long battle with cancer. Yudashkin is famous for wowing Paris Fashion Week with his Faberge collection in 1991, and clothing ...

When filmmaker Marc Wolfensberger first found out about Neft Daşları, he thought it was a myth. He kept hearing about this secretive city, sprawled like floating, rusting tentacles across the ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Ukrainian drones have struck a Russian naval base on the Caspian Sea for the first time ...