Alexander Pushkin's profound quote, "A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths," explores the human ...

In Russia, a country rich with writers, one literary figure towers above the rest _ above Dostoevsky, above Chekhov, above Tolstoy. These days, he literally towers. His picture is draped from the top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Police officers gather next to a monument to Russian poet Pushkin as supporters of opposition leader Navalny are ...

The greatness of Pushkin, by Prof. I. Luppol.--The life and death of the poet: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a biographical essay) by Prof. V. Kirpotin. The lonely Pushkin, by Prof. A.

As President Vladimir Putin hosts African leaders for the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi on Wednesday and Thursday, here is a look at these connections, starting with beloved 19th-century poet ...

MINSK, 5 June (BelTA) - Belarus and Russia will issue a joint postage stamp to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, BelTA learned from the ...

With a strained economy and stalemate in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues ratcheting up internal ...

PUSHKIN—Ernest J. Simmons—Harvard University Press ($4). Russian Reds and Whites cannot live together in amity, but one parti-colored dead man they proudly own in common. Last week, on the hundredth ...

Earlier, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy initiated the process for expunging a number of monuments pertaining to Russian history from the official state register MOSCOW, ...