We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Russia is not a normal country. That's the obvious and inescapable conclusion one comes to after considering everything from the country's ...

At the request of Russia's Education Ministry, teacher Pavel Talankin helped film pro-war propaganda efforts at an elementary school in the town of Karabash. But ministry officials did not suspect he ...

Polish filmmaker Konrad Szolajski’s new documentary looks at nearly a decade of Russian sabotage, espionage and disinformation across Central and Eastern Europe, with an eery actuality. “Putting the ...

Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished. Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...

"The Great Sauerkraut Triangle" may be far from Hollywood, but its citizens are rapidly acquiring a film history. The third documentary on the Germans from Russia, North Dakota's most numerous ethnic ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...