On This Day, Feb. 7: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...
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Remembering Leonid Bazhanov, larger-than-life curator who pushed Russian contemporary art in new directions
The death of Bazhanov, who founded institutions including the groundbreaking National Centre for Contemporary Art, follows ...
How Lady Thatcher became the subject of an opera
"She was after all the first female prime minister and in her centenary year, it just seemed a perfect time to get this up and running." 'Lady Macbeth figure' He said the opera wo ...
British-educated composer 'dies after falling from tenth-floor window of his Russian home as cops interview him about donating funds to Ukraine'
Vadim Stroykin, 58, became the latest Russian to take a suspiciously timed nosedive out of a high window as police performed ...