Even though I grew up in Russia, I wanted to be the perfect Southern mother to my two sons. I adopted old-fashioned values ...

A reader says that in order for there to be lasting peace in Eastern Europe, Russia's grievances with NATO must be understood ...

A Russian musician who opposed the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine plunged to his death from his 10th-story apartment during a ...

Music was Sergei's obsession. And it's what eventually led him to leave Russia for Vermont. Well, in true rock-and-roll fashion, it was music and a woman. Sergei met Marina Collins in 1992 ...

Laman Ismayilova Read more Azerbaijan State Academic Philharmonic Hall has hosted a magnificent concert titled Magic of the ...

Dmitry Kiselyov rose through the aftershocks of the Cold War and emerged as Vladimir Putin’s propagandist in chief.

By denying the existence of Ukrainian culture, the Russian war machine has prompted many to find Ukrainian creativity for the ...

Yaroslav Simkiv has played the trumpet for over 50 years and is a recognizable figure in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

spiced up with world music and some rap, with the stated aim of aiding the struggle against cultural “assimilation” of their country by its neighbour Russia. Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha ensemble ...

When Israeli singer Yuval Raphael represents her country at the Eurovision Song Contest in May, there will be at least one ...

Michel Krielaars’ The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin is a fascinating look at the perils of making music under the maniacal Soviet dictator. We know much about the broken lives and ...

For years, various musicians have been credited with coining a familiar quip about the inadequacies of music criticism: ...