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A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

How well do you know Soviet songs? Russian musician Anton Tulsky revives old and popular songs in an original way trying to confuse the listeners by adding foreign sounds. Can you guess what songs ...

Launched under the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Intervision Song Contest took place in Czechoslovakia (1965 to 1968) and later in Sopot, Poland (1977 to 1980), replacing the Sopot ...

Almond is certainly up for a challenge. But, in gathering some of the finest Soviet songs and singers of the last century to invoke the spirit of Mother Russia, has he gone a steppe too far?