Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, there lived a powerful leader known as Catherine the Great who ruled a vast empire and, over the years, ...

An unshakable monument in the history of world cinema, Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” opened 100 years ago this December, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Ever since its re-release in the ...

Anyone who has seen Warren Beatty’s 1981 film Reds, which dramatized the birth pangs of the Russian Revolution, may be moved by Red Mutiny, Neal Bascomb’s elegiac and emotionally involving story of ...

In 1787, Empress Catherine II of Russia made an unprecedented six-month trip to Crimea, the “New Russia,” with her court and some foreign ambassadors. The area had recently been devastated by war.

According to legend, in 1787, Crimean governor Grigory Potemkin created fake houses along the banks of the Dnieper River to impress Russian Empress Catherine the Great, giving rise to the phrase ...

Famed director Michael Mann has recently joined fellow director Martin Scorsese and a host of other cinephiles to post his list of favorite films on Letterboxd, the "social network for film lovers." ...

I don’t like performative bipartisanship—those exercises where a foundation assembles a motley crew of “leaders” to craft a banality-stuffed joint proclamation. It’s the kind of self-congratulatory ...