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Four major trials are underway in Moscow under Article 210 of the Criminal Code, the one that provides for life imprisonment for criminal gangs. Among the most popular is the one for the 'Taganka mafia' and the one for the Summa business holding, in which a banker and former minister Mikhail Abyzov are also on trial.

Russian actress Irina Starshenbaum plays the titular character in the movie that recently premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF23). You can also catch her in the upcoming sci-fi movie 'The Primary Talent'. We take a closer look at Irina and her life leading up to international stardom. Read Full Article at https://www.rbth.com

Russian actress Irina Starshenbaum plays the titular character in the movie that recently premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF23). You can also catch her in the upcoming sci-fi movie 'The Primary Talent'. We take a closer look at Irina and her life leading up to international stardom. Read Full Article at https://www.rbth.com

This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21.

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.

For two decades, she was in charge of the cultural life of Moscow and then of the entire Soviet Union. She even managed to lift the Iron Curtain, if...

The first post-Soviet nightclubs were very democratic in their own way. In them, you could meet everyone from a daughter of the president and

The first post-Soviet nightclubs were very democratic in their own way. In them, you could meet everyone from a daughter of the president and...

It became known about the death of the ex-wife of the Soviet poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, actress Lyudmila Abramova. About this on Saturday, February

German playwright and poet Brecht, who was born 125 years ago, was banned by the Nazis. The author of "The Threepenny Opera" remains popular worldwide to this day — but not in Russia.