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Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest on Saturday having been banned from Eurovision. The new competition, which comes at the behest of President Vladimir Putin, intends ...

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For anyone who loves free-form avant-jazz, Hyphen Dash’s new album, Basement 626, will strike the proverbial experimental chord. Over its 17 tracks, drummer Myshko Birchenko and guitarist/loops player ...

Inevitably one furrows a brow (or two) at a jumped-up subtitle promising an “incredible true story,” but David Junk delivers the goods in “Rockin’ the Kremlin,” a jaunty, picaresque memoir by the man ...

He drew on Russian literature for his stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama. By Jonathan Kandell Rodion Shchedrin, a leading Russian ...

Growing up in Tambov, Russia, Vladimir Dubyshkin wasn’t exactly surrounded by a robust electronic music scene. Instead, he relied on external influences, like the Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, and ...

But that fateful weekend in August marked a significant change for the Soviets. Suddenly, thousands of rock lovers were listening to rowdy music, screaming expletives, and even dancing in front of ...

One of the nation’s finest composers had no part in the present, or even the past, crimes of his country Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also writes about cricket for The ...