In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a "foreign agent", a move that would officially designate ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

Russian pop legend Alla Pugacheva criticized the country as having "illusory aims" in Ukraine on Sunday, becoming the latest high-profile Russian figure to voice opposition to the war. Russian pop ...