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The concert was about to begin last Saturday, and I looked across the stage at my colleague <a href=" Voloshina, sitting ...

On Nov. 29, the Grand Kyiv Ballet brought their rendition of the holiday classic “The Nutcracker” to life at the Emerson ...

Ballerina Victoria Dauberville was filmed performing a dance on the edge of a cruise ship’s bilge, mere inches from Antarctica’s icy waters. The visually-stunning moment was so awe-inspiring, social ...

More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country’s embattled defenses ...

Photo: Image: Francois Lenoir/Reuters An interesting moment has arrived in the Ukraine war. “Putin is not yet desperate” says a headline in Foreign Affairs magazine, over an article by a well ...

About 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 those troops have been killed or injured.

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. At least 14 people were killed in Poltava ...

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Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] crucified a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear.” ...