Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian ...

Two police officers and another person were killed in a car blast in Moscow on Wednesday. It is the second fatal bombing in ...

Meet the history and politics of a world-famous Christmas song that started as Kyiv’s political message to the world a ...

Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on ...

Russian authorities are warning the United States about the potential consequences of their actions in Venezuela.

He loves the “liquid clarinet and the heroic French horn,” the way Strauss “pushes us into the whole range of the instrument,” asking for “the full gamut of moods and types of sound.” It’s fun, he ...

Ukraine prepares to test the new Czech 'Narwhal' missile, capable of striking Moscow. Combat trials begin in 2026, raising fears of major escalation.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 launched more than a military conflict; it thrust Ukraine’s rich and vibrant culture into focus.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday in a meeting that dragged on for nearly ...

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff is set to travel to Moscow next week to meet with Russian leaders as momentum builds for a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, the United ...

White House envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week, the Kremlin said, amid accelerating efforts to cement a US-backed peace proposal that many Ukrainians -- and European leaders -- are ...

The White House has launched a new Ukraine-Russia peace push in recent weeks. LONDON and KYIV, Ukraine -- The Kremlin's top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, confirmed there is a "preliminary ...