In Spies: The Rise and Fall of The KGB in America, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr teamed up with former KGB member and journalist Alexander Vassiliev to illustrate the phenomenon of...
One of the most endearing moments of Alexander Rybak's record-setting Eurovision win for Norway tonight came when the performer of the charming "Fairytale" alternatively gushed in both Norwegian and...
"Inside Chernobyl," an exhibition by photographer and Fulbright scholar Michael Forster Rothbart, recently made its debut in Kyiv, and will be making its way to such places as Moscow and Washington...
The first thing that greeted me as I browsed Russian LiveJournal today was a story on Ukrainian politician Vladimir Litvin - and his address to Ukrainian women on March 8th, International Women's...
If you happen to sit around watching Ukrainian television these days, you might notice a public service announcement on domestic abuse, straight from the Ukrainian Ministry of Family, Youth, and...
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. Director, screenwriter, and producer John Milius has...
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. "The Thing" is the darkest film in the Kurt Russell...
This is a special edition of this column. Here are two things you ought to know about the conflict flaring up between Russia and Georgia: First of all, Russia does not want NATO on her doorstep, and...
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
Sweet Jesus, Anne Applebaum, stereotype much? Of course there were many very famous "sultry" women in the USSR - things did not begin, and end, with Stalin and Liubov Orlova (an actress from the...