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In today’s Sakartvelo, the national-level narrative about the country’s geopolitical vector of development is plainly ...
On the day of his yartzeit, the daughter of the chossid, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg OBM, shared the reason why he never visited ...
Inspired by Star Wars, this epic parody features the heart-wrenching battle of Obi-wan Kenobi against his former apprentice ...
The problem is that I already feel permanently guilty about owning too many books for my very small cottage. My passion (or should I say addiction?) goes back to my first life, in the Soviet Union, ...
For distributing the Bible and sharing the Gospel in the Soviet Union, Aleksei Kharlamov’s great-grandfather was sent to ...
Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...
Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...
In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...
A $5.2 million campaign is underway in Lake Placid to create a life-sized monument celebrating the gold medal-winning ...
When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, religion was viewed with deep suspicion. Public expressions of faith were discouraged and proselytizing was against the law. According to the state’s ...
Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy ...
Wine country After the war, Moldova lay in ruins. Its infrastructure was wrecked, and disease was rampant for lack of medicine, not to mention mass unemployment and famine. The Soviet government ...