People who lived behind the iron curtain learned to make the most of what they had, and that included decorating the yards ...

Thousands of people are affected when heating plants are targeted by Russian forces.

Olga Novitskaya is not your typical insurgent. The 54-year old translator lives in an old apartment building in the Cheremushki district of Moscow, and she wants to stay there. The City Council wants ...

Reporting from Kiev, UkraineReporting from Kiev, Ukraine — There’s that moment near the beginning of “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy’s house is swept away from the black-and-white world of Kansas and ...

The Moscow government plans to resettle millions of citizens, moving them their Soviet-era apartment blocks mass-produced under Nikita Krushchev in the 1950s and into modern flats.

A controversial Ocean Avenue project debated half a decade ago will be significantly remodeled, not demolished. Still, some renters' rights advocates and historic preservationists say the distinction ...

A much-loved Soviet musical from 1962 shows a couple celebrating their move to one of the new Khrushchevki of Cheremushki. To a film score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, the young lovers joyously ...