Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own ...
A wave of outrage swept through the media after a film was released showing Russian military police forcing wounded soldiers to return to the front through beatings. For Russians, such behavior is not ...
The uniforms were sent to be transformed into teddy bears as a family keepsake, but never reached their destination. "This package is invaluable," Jamieson's father, Jon Ritter, said. "I mean ...
It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a ...
Jordan Green is an investigative correspondent based in Greensboro, N.C., who covers right-wing extremism for Raw Story. His work has been featured in a host of publications, including the ...
According to a report by a Ukrainian military unit, the North Korean soldiers wear Russian military uniforms with fake military IDs in their pockets and they could easily be mistaken for Russian ...
The new North Korean arrivals might have been given fake IDs, issued Russian uniforms and taught a few basic Russian phrases, according to South Korea’s spy agency. Many of them looked barely ...
A tiny Russian child is shown in a khaki uniform and carrying a gun as he is urged to “kill Ukrainians” in a shocking clip doing the rounds on social media. The unverified footage, shared on X ...
An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting ... In 2017, the Russian painter Vassily Nesterenko, a Kremlin favorite, reimagined the Cossacks in modern Russian uniforms, in a work titled ...
Watching Gladiator II, which surely will add fuel to the smoldering embers in the hearts of many men, reminded me how many contradictions sit at the heart of most popular fantasies about imperial Rome ...
But then again, these are unprecedented times. Is the idea of a freshly emboldened demagogue with imperial designs really that outside the bounds of possibility? Trump is an inveterate shit-talker.
These structures may have been part of an earlier residence on the site that had been constructed in the early eighteenth century, and it is possible that they were demolished when the current ...