The phrase “worthy of Aivazovsky’s brush” was coined by the writer Anton Chekhov in his 1897 play Uncle Vanya, solidifying the artist’s lasting importance to the history of Russian art. Aivazovsky’s ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star ...

Art teacher Daniil Klyuka believes the headmistress of the provincial Russian school where he worked reported him for doodling horns on pictures of officials in a newspaper. The 28-year-old was ...

A Dog becomes the star of the Lord Mayors show but gets confused when it encounters a robotic dog. Ukraine launched an ...

While Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, had declared that the Russian president wouldn't react to Donald Trump's victory, ...

Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn ...

He added that “fists cannot be an argument in either politics or art.” Waving Bulgarian flags ... Swiss, Serbian, and Russian characters, Shaw’s play is widely regarded as a humorous but ...

Moscow Exhibits Gaddafi Daughter's Art, Painted in Slain Libyan Leader's Honour MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian state museum is mounting an exhibit of artwork by the daughter of slain Libyan leader ...

This course combines history of art with the study of Russian, a language of strategic importance spoken by people across several countries and large diasporic communities, including in the UK. The ...

Cool scene. Not insane at all. Totally normal thing you see all the time in tons of movies. Where is all this going? To a ...

The 28-year-old was later sentenced to 20 years in jail. His case illustrates the severity of the crackdown on dissent -- both real and imagined -- in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.