Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...
Dry dock, Soviet cinema, meat market — is there anything architect Asif Khan can’t transform?
Known for his revivals of old structures, the Londoner is reimagining two landmarks in the capital — and one in Kazakhstan ...
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Crazy Engineering Projects That Almost Happened
In the mid-1980s, one man had a dream – a dream of a flying city that would be almost 10 times bigger than the Soviet Un ...
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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology displays the region's vast diversity
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOSEF STALIN: (Speaking Russian). MAYNES: Sound engineers - critical to the Soviet propaganda machine - were among the new arrivals to Central Asia, where they ...
What Was The Only Mach 2 Bomber To Serve Aboard A US Navy Carrier?
The idea of putting an operational supersonic bomber into carrier-based service seemed ridiculous at the time, and it would ...
Ukraine Will Fight On, With or Without the West
More ink has been spilled in recent weeks over who has been jilted in multilateral talks than about the actual situation in ...
Removing ‘the enemy within’
FIRST ON FOX: The “Renewal of the American Dream" is the theme of President Donald Trump’s first address of his second term ...
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A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco
SOHONIE: On those trains were also engineers who could produce vinyl manufacturing ... was pumping out around 200 million vinyl records just within the Soviet Union. EISENBERG: With the death ...