On December 23, Russia’s main New Year tree was set up in the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square, fully decorated and ready for the holidays ...

The Soviet Union’s ritual for the holiday survived the country’s dissolution—but may be in danger of slipping away.

Russia’s “foreign agent” law, established in 2012 to identify individuals and organizations that received international funding, has become a tool to criminally prosecute and ban from public life ...

Absent is the decade-plus of anti-Jewish violence that led up to the Arab Revolt. That is only one of many omissions in this supposedly “historical” story.The post ‘Palestine 36’ is ...

The smell of tangerines, the sound of chimes, the glitter of garlands — these attributes of the New Year seem eternal and ...

The revolutionary ideals of liberty spread across the colonies while many suffer from enslavement. Committees of Correspondence form in hundreds of Massachusetts towns linking advocates of resistance ...

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin," a film made secretly by a teacher in Russia, shows the propaganda efforts in a country at war.

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