The White House hasn’t commented on the portrait. Trump isn’t the first sitting president to receive a gift from Putin. In 2021, Putin gave then-President Joe Biden a $12,000 lacquer writing ...

Here’s a super-rare sight. Seated on a public bench, a citizen is writing manually. That is, she is writing with her hand, using a pen and paper. The paper is placed for support on a hardbound ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a portrait of Donald Trump to Steve ... Putin's previous gifts to US Presidents included a writing box for Joe Biden and porcelain plates for Barack ...

That’s fiction: a scene from “Moscow-Petushki,” a 1969 satire by the Soviet writer Venedikt Yerofeyev. But, said the composer, musicologist and author Gerard McBurney, who completed a new ...

In writer-director Alex Burunova‘s feature debut ... Burunova’s beautifully composed portrait of grief, trauma and love captures that human conflict with the appropriate balance of poise ...

The treatments, like the 1970s architecture and, one suspects, many of the clientele, have barely changed in the 50-plus years since the Soviet-era facility was built. Even with the war raging ...

To give credit to the writer, it does take chutzpah to venture into such a long-festering cliché of a theme, especially in a first book. A recent successful experiment with a similar subject was ...

Thus I rejoice at every success, whatever the form -- the dam of Dnieprostroy, the new novel of a Soviet writer, a successful expedition into the Arctic Ocean -- even a successful move of Soviet ...

Censored, delayed and never published during the author’s lifetime, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” nonetheless emerged to become one of the highest regarded ...