MOSCOW -- A rock star, a poet, a detective novelist, and an actress aren't who usually come to mind as leading members of an organization called the League of Voters. But that is exactly what the ...

Today marks the 40th day since Alexei Navalny collapsed and died in an Arctic Circle prison camp. Russian Orthodox belief holds that on this day the Lord determines where Navalny’s soul will dwell – ...

IT IS ironic that in the recent events in Poland and Hungary a leading rôle was played by one of the most favored and privileged groups in Communist society, the intellectuals. It was the students who ...

AFTER 40 years of Communist rule the Soviet intelligentsia is still far from homogeneous. Each generation has been subject to quite different influences as gradually the vision of an unrealized ...

The Russian language boasts a formidable literary tradition. A handful of Russian words have made their way into English agitprop, apparatchik, commissar, gulag, Kalashnikov, nomenklatura, pogrom, ...

This weekend the Obama administration, in keeping with the provisions of the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act, will make public a list of Russian citizens deemed to have ...

The political journalism of post-Soviet Russia has given rise to dozens of books. The majority of them are written in a boring, turgid style. Some are fixated on the latest scandals. Others ...

Russia, like any country, is a place where criminal trials often captivate and scandalize the public. While this summer's ‘hooliganism’ charges against Pussy Riot have enjoyed the spotlight at home ...

Galina Vishnevskaya died in Moscow on December 11 at the age of 86 MOSCOW, December 13 (Itar-Tass) — The diseased opera singer, Galina Vishnevskaya, is a true representative of Russian intelligentsia.

‘REVOLUTION is a storm, sweeping aside everything that stands in its path.’ So reads the present-day inscription on the former building of the Moscow City Council. And the Bolshevist revolution, which ...

"At first I thought they were going to shoot me, then it was like in a very good film.” Speaking in Berlin, Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza reflected on his release from Russian prison ...