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A film still of physicist Alexander Vilenkin from the set of "Dau". He was flown to Kharkov for a week to play the role of a scientist in the movie.

This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished

Arts

Dau was filmed in a full-size replica of a Soviet scientific institute featuring real-life physicists, Communist party bosses and former KGB agents. But you might never get the chance to see the results of the huge production.Dau was filmed in a full-size replica of a Soviet scientific institute featuring real-life physicists, Communist party bosses and former KGB agents. But you might never get the chance to see the results of the huge production.

Ukraine

Ukraine finds it hard to disentangle from its deep Russian ties

Global Politics
President Kennedy meets with Chairman Khrushchev at the US Embassy residence, Vienna.

The White House to Kremlin Hotline: Avoiding War for 50 Years

Arts, Culture & Media

Experts say foreign policy largely irrelevant when U.S. voters head to ballot box

Author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media
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A tale of two Russian anthems

Arts, Culture & Media

Sergei Mikhalkov wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem during World War II, but rewrote it decades later to better reflect the times.

Sergei Tretyakov on ‘Bob Edwards Weekend’

Arts, Culture & Media

Bob talks to the former double agent about his experiences in the late 1990s, spying for both the Russians and the US.

World War II ‘Night Witch’ Dies at 91

Born in 1921 in a small coal-mining town in Eastern Ukraine, Nadezhda Popova dreamed of becoming a teacher or a nurse when she was young. Then one day a pilot was blown off course and landed in a field near her school. “We all rushed out of the school and we saw him landing,” she […]

Why Stalin Remains Popular in Parts of Former Soviet Union

Arts, Culture & Media

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was one of the most murderous dictators of the 20th century. And yet, 60 years after his death, he remains popular in some former Soviet republics – especially in his own nation of Georgia.

What We Can Learn from the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

In February 1989, after nine long years, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan. Today, as the United States transitions out of the country,  Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of  national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College, says that Americans have plenty of lessons to learn from the Soviet withdrawal. The USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979 with grand […]

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