How America’s most patriotic anthem was actually written by a Russian: “The real soul of the country”
The home of the brave.
Russia
The illegal trips to see Kazakhstan’s hidden space rockets
What is hiding in Central Kazakhstan and why are people breaking into a restricted cosmodrome to see it?
Moscow Peace Festival: The madness of the ‘Russian Woodstock’
Hair metal’s big moment in the last days of the USSR.
Pussy Riot labelled as extremist organisation in Russia
The ruling was determined on December 15th in Moscow.
The Best Record You’ve Never Heard: Madra Salach reach into the depths of contemporary throat singing
“Easily the most idiosyncratic album I’ve ever encountered, I love it.”
Transnistria: Europe’s small Soviet enclave that doesn’t exist
A Soviet time warp that takes you back to a time before the Iron Curtain fell.
Limp Bizkit concert in Estonia cancelled due to Fred Durst’s historic pro-Russian comments
Durst was banned from Ukraine in 2015.