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I was born to a Jewish family from Leningrad in 1981. My grandpa on my mother’s side, Arkady [all names changed], died two ...
Ekranoplans—massive Soviet machines combining elements of ships and planes—were built to be the ultimate coastal transport ...
Victor Wooten and the Wooten Brothers will play two shows at SPACE on Saturday. The Christian Holy Week and Jewish Passover ...
Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...
It was the late Soviet Union about which Cold War Westerners liked to joke that ... and attention-grabbing like Kim Kardashian - that it is easy to forget that Donald Trump is merely human, too. The ...
Franz Wagner scored 23 points and Cole Anthony finished with 18 as the Orlando Magic extended their winning streak to four games by earning a 96-76 home victory against the undermanned Boston ...
In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...
Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Rudi Von Briel/Photodisc via Getty Images ...
Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union ... it’s easy to identify ...