McDonald's Russian restaurants have just reopened – but they're not owned by McDonald's anymore. When the chain opened its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, hundreds lined up to try its burgers.

”I don`t want to be the piano`s appendage,” says Milton Ruben Laufer, a gifted 18-year-old musician from Wilmette. That separates Laufer, one of 60 music students from the U.S. and Canada who are ...

THE SOVIET Union is moving inexorably into an era of greater political pluralism and probably unavoidable regional fragmentation. Is the United States ready to deal with these profound changes? Pretty ...

Continuing its campaign of pressure, the Kremlin sent troops on another foray in the Lithuanian capital on Thursday and repeated it would not hold formal talks with separatist leaders there until the ...

MOSCOW — Moscow police bulldozers razed early yesterday morning a protesters’ shantytown across from the Kremlin gates that since the summer had been a squalid symbol of this society’s new freedom and ...

Winter in Washington this year is going to be a very Russian one, at least for visitors to the Smithsonian Institution`s S. Dillon Ripley Center. From now through Feb. 3, this expansive exhibition ...

CLOWN DEFECTS. A clown from the Moscow Circus has defected during a tour of the United States and plans to seek political asylum, an attorney said Thursday. Lawyer Michael Ross said Sergei Uhanov, 28, ...

EADaily, November 18th, 2025. In 1931, the Progress publishing house was established in the USSR, where professional ...

An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia's photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL's Amos Chapple had a look through the ...

WJAR reporter Mary Maguire, photographer Don O'Sullivan and assistant news director Betty-Jo Cugini traveled to the Soviet Union in 1990. "This is an exciting time in the Soviet Union. A time of ...