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

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.

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Pepsi's historic deal with the Soviet Union involved exchanging soda for vodka and later acquiring Soviet warships, marking a ...

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and ...

When the CEO of Russian state gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, opened a lavish Italian palazzo-styled building in central St ...

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

The Biden administration put thousands in detention. Now, their future remains uncertain amid a shifting geopolitical ...

Born in Christopol in 1931, Gubaidulina’s intensely spiritual music marked her out as the most important Russian composer of the contemporary period.