The former chief of the multi-tentacled Wagner group, who is believed to have died in a plane crash, didn’t just send his army of mercenaries to the Ukrainian front lines. He was also at the vanguard ...

The Oscar-winner ventures to the front lines of the battle in a behind-the-scenes account of the devastating conflict. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large The Oscar-winning actor and longtime political ...

Cinemas are still violating the culture ministry regulations. At a movie theatre in central Moscow this month, people had come to watch an illicit film. It wasn’t a documentary about the war in ...

The 2013 war movie Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, is gritty, exciting, romantic and chock full of cutting-edge special effects. It's also deeply, deeply immoral, a work of pro-war ...

There are many who don’t realize the Russo-Ukrainian War began long before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In 2014, Ukraine’s pro-Russia president, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown in a popular ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The movie centers around a renowned violinist from Belgium arriving in Kyiv to perform. The date is February 2022, and his trip is upended as Russia starts bombing Ukraine. The ...

Europe and Russia are shocked by the unexpected death of the young Emperor Peter II. He died at the age of 14, leaving behind neither an heir nor a will. Who will get the crown of the Russian Empire?

Nearly 17 months in, Russia’s savage war in Ukraine is no less urgent a peril for democracy and global stability. And yet it can also can feel relegated to one more dour item jockeying for position in ...

For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains. By Amos Barshad Recently, on ...