Category: Life

Italy’s culture minister joined the widow of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny on Tuesday in condemning an invitation for maestro Valery Gergiev to perform near Naples, warning it could serve as propaganda for the…

Russian investigators questioned the artistic director of two of Russia’s most prominent theaters in connection with a major embezzlement case, the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reported Wednesday.

The investigation…

Viktor Nordenskiöld’s “The Eukrainian,” a documentary about Ukraine’s quest for European Union membership, uses the bloc’s diplomatic negotiations and bureaucracy as the backdrop for a story with life-or-death…

AMSTERDAM — A tsar, who rose to the throne through the murder of a young heir, is asked to stay in power by an impoverished populace for the sake of their nation’s stability. 

Yet haunted by the ghosts of his past, he descends…

“Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right?” are the oft-quoted words of Rodion Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” In the novel, Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker and her sister to…

In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s crushing defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74, one senior Turkish diplomat placed the blame squarely on the Empire’s Crimean Tatar allies. In his memoirs, he described them as having…

In “Our Dear Friends in Moscow. The Inside Story of a Broken Generation,” journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov set out to understand how some of their fellow journalists in Russia came to accept wholeheartedly the actions…