In 1934, the residue of restlessness among the Bolsheviks came to a head with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party boss, and one of Stalin’s stooges in the Politburo. Stalin went ...

“Even slander should make sense”, Trotsky commented. Zinoviev and Kamenev had already been imprisoned following the assassination of the Leningrad party chief, Sergei Kirov, in December 1934, a crime ...

What is significant about Ashton’s dance interpretation of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” set to the music of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev ... in 1940 at the Kirov Theatre when ...

During the Great Patriotic War (1941—1945) Perm (named Molotov at the time) hosted the ballet groups of the Kirov Theatre (now the Mariinsky ... Paris and the “Diaghilev Russian Ballet Group” Sergei ...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees to adopt 60-hour workweeks and a daily office presence to lead in the race for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Brin believes that intense ...

Writer, actor, and pianist Hershey Felder has several self-penned solo musical plays in his impressive body of work. His newest production, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, is on its world premiere tour ...

Russia is developing "privileged strategic partnership" with India, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Lavrov said at an event that Russia is actively expanding ties with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrence forces on high alert as Moscow's forces poured into Ukraine in early 2022, and the Kremlin's veteran foreign minister, Sergey ...

March 24 (Reuters) - A veteran of Russia's FSB security service and a former long-serving diplomat are representing Russia at the latest round of talks with the United States over Ukraine, taking ...

In May 2013, Iordanidi sat between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their meeting with then-Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic at the Russian president ...