Holidays are perfect for grabbing a warm drink and reading under the blanket. And for sure there’s not enough time for all these classic and timeless novels. Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s first and ...
The exhibition showcased over 40 ongoing plays, such as Mo Yan's Crocodile, Liang Xiaosheng's A Lifelong Journey, Chi ...
A new Ghana–Russia literary exchange programme aimed at promoting indigenous languages, cultural understanding, and literacy among young readers has been launched in Accra.
ALBAWABA- An explosion in southern Moscow killed three people on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, including two traffic police officers and a civilian, Rus ...
The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.
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Soviet Stalinism collapsed not by gun but by pen

The Soviet Thaw didn’t begin with protests — it began with literature. In 1962, a short novel about a single day in a Gulag camp was legally published for the first time. Khrushchev personally ...
Russia’s Consul General in Hurghada welcomed the reopening of the Hurghada Culture Palace, saying the revamped complex ...
The year 2025 in Kashmir was like any other year in Kashmir: full of rumours, expectations and disappointments. What kept Kashmiris going was their knack for good humour, their love for wazwan and ...
China's online literature has achieved unprecedented global reach, with Latin American markets emerging as key growth drivers and young creators reshaping the landscape, according to international ...
We were the children of 1812.” That was when Napoleon invaded Russia; two years later Russian forces entered Paris. They ...
I first read it as my freshman summer drew to a close, on a plane passing over Budapest, which is incidentally when and where ...
Ukrainian intelligence services assassinated a senior Russian general on the streets of Moscow on Monday, detonating a bomb ...