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Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, ...

A branch of Russia's defense ministry released a pop song celebrating its vast nuclear arsenal. The song celebrates the power of the "Sarmat" missile, also known as the "Son of Satan." As its ...

Perhaps ironically, the tragedy and courage of the Ukrainians puts me in mind of Russian songs about soldiers and soldiering. I can't think of any great modern American songs about this (I'm not ...

I was recently listening again to Yuri Shevchuk's song about the wreck of the submarine "Kursk," and was struck again by several lines. Loosely translated, the opening line of the song is, "Who of ...

In the Russian Republic of Chechnya, authorities have enacted a new ban that polices the speed of music compositions, now making it an offense to record or present compositions that are too fast or ...

In a rare and almost unthinkable act of defiance in today’s Russia, a small crowd of young people gathered in central St. Petersburg to sing anti-war and anti-Kremlin songs, led by 18-year-old ...