The Russian State Duma has overwhelmingly approved reinstating the Stalin-era national anthem as the country's official song -- just nine years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and seven years ...

As Russian athletes prepare for the day when they again hoist Olympic medals to the sound of an unfamiliar anthem and a generic flag, they are calling on Katyusha to help assuage their loss. The ...

Once wary Moscow Patriarchate now supports resurrecting former national anthem. After initial hesitation, the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has expressed support for President ...

MOSCOW (AP) Russia s revived Soviet-era national anthem, which once praised the atheist Communist Party and dictator Josef Stalin, now celebrates Russia as a holy country that is protected by God.

A Metropolitan Opera singer received death threats after she was mistaken for another Chinese soprano who sang a Soviet Union anthem in the ruins of a Ukrainian theater where hundreds were killed by ...

The former Soviet satellite nation of Georgia has had four national anthems in the past 14 years. Practically no one liked, or even knew, the words to the last anthem, which was hard to memorize. But ...

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin brought back the Soviet-era red star Tuesday as the Russian military's emblem, the latest in a series of restored communist symbols that play to nostalgia but have ...