Blast in St. Petersburg Metro Kills 11, Injures Dozens
VOA Russian authorities have identified a suspect in Monday’s deadly subway bombing in St. Petersburg, the Interfax news agency reports. Interfax says police believe it was a suicide bombing, and they...
View ArticleComey Testifies Trump Pressed Him to Drop Investigation
The recently fired director of the FBI, James Comey, said on Capitol Hill Thursday that he believed U.S. President Donald Trump was trying to get him to drop an investigation of Trump’s former national...
View ArticleRussia’s Hallowed October Revolution Now Seen as a ‘Communist Coup’
VOA Daniel Schearf For decades, the Soviet Union celebrated the October Revolution, which brought the communist Bolsheviks to power in Russia. Nowadays, there’s much less celebration. The October...
View ArticleFor The Love Of Dance, An American Ballerina Visits Russia
By ShareAmerica Catherine Cata, a 17-year-old ballerina from Stafford, Virginia, recently got the chance to study with the world’s best dancers. Invited to spend six weeks at the Bolshoi Ballet dancing...
View ArticleStalinism Resurgent in Russia as Critics Warn Against Whitewashing Soviet...
Decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is fierce debate over the legacy of one of its most brutal dictators. Josef Stalin, who ruled from the 1930s until his death in 1953, is held...
View ArticleRussian Shopping Mall Fire Kills 64; No Alarms Reported
VOA MOSCOW — With the fire alarms silent and staff reportedly nowhere to be seen, a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64...
View ArticleEastern Ukraine’s Accelerating Humanitarian Crisis
By Mary Jane Maxwell “There’s no peace and shelling takes place daily.” That’s the current situation in Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, says an archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox...
View ArticleFormer Trump Lawyer Gets 3 Years in Prison
Ken Bredemeier Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison, after telling a New York judge that his “blind loyalty”...
View ArticleUkrainian Court Finds ex-President Guilty of Treason
VOA A court in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason and helping Russia annex the Crimean peninsula. The Kiev court began reading out the...
View ArticleВ России продолжаются преследования верующих
По ShareAmerica В мае 2017 года, когда исповедь Денниса Кристенсена на службе Свидетелей Иеговы в российском городе Орле подходила к концу, в небольшой зал ворвались омоновцы. Кристенсена арестовали по...
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