Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.

A song created by Japanese prisoners of war interned in Mongolia following the end of World War II has been transcribed to ...

Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98.

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has transformed Fort Worth into a global epicenter for classical music, ...

With this year's Eurovision Song Contest now over, Russia has begun drumming up support for its counter-event, the ...

In the late 1980s, German rockers Scorpion had a monster hit with their ‘haunting ballad’, Winds of Change. It became the ...

Who will blink first? That is the question when it comes to which studio will resume distributing films in Russia after a three-year moratorium sparked by the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

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In the new three-part season of the BBC World Service's Amazing Sport Stories podcast, music, sport, and the fall of the Soviet Union collide in the extraordinary true story of how the Lithuanian ...

A top secret 250-page KGB dossier came into the CIA's hands after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ... allegedly came down during a training exercise in Ukraine amid the Cold War. Advert ...

The Berlin Wall, a symbol of the brutal Cold War dividing the communist East and capitalist West, went up in 1961 and fell in 1989, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.