ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — In early 80s Leningrad, change was in the air — if you knew where to look. For Natasha Vassilieva-Hull that was through her lens. Then an aspiring young photographer, she ...

A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...

April 1988 is still seared into singer Klaus Meine's memory. Less than a decade earlier, he and his bandmates in the Scorpions had conquered America; now, the German metal group was taking its brand ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

At a time when freedom of expression titters on the brink in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, there’s something thrillingly contemporary about Kirill Serebrennikov’s Soviet-set musical drama. Early 1980s St.

Kyiv City Council has granted a decades-old willow the status of a botanical monument in honor of Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi in the same neighborhood where he was filmed in a movie shot in Ukraine ...

American Joanna Stingray, center, with Soviet musicians in an album promo shot for Red Wave: Four Underground Bands from the USSR. Leningrad, 1985. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — In early 80s Leningrad, ...

Forty years ago in the Soviet Union, a group of underground musicians opened a venue where they and their friends could perform. The Leningrad... A Haven For Soviet Rock And Roll Is Long Gone But Its ...