“Vladimir” is already the second play this year in New York that focuses on Putin and his era. Earlier in 2024, Broadway featured “Patriots,” written by Peter Morgan, the creator of the award-winning Netflix series “The Crown,” and directed by Rupert Goold. That play ran for several weeks, centering on Boris Berezovsky’s rise and fall…
Russian missile strikes killed four people including a child in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last night, while a teenager and another person died in attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region, officials said Saturday. The strikes came less than 48 hours after Russia finished hosting a three-day summit of the BRICS group of emerging…
In Russia most people think there are three feast days of Christ the Savior in the late summer and early autumn. Each holiday has a religious name, but they are long — for example, “The Procession of the Venerable Wood of the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord.” So people gave them names associated with what…
Russian authorities announced a manhunt on Saturday after six convicts escaped the correctional facility where they were being held through a secret tunnel. Prison guards in the western Lipetsk region were alerted to the prisoners’ disappearance after carrying out a routine inspection. “In general regime penal colony No. 2, an underground tunnel was discovered during…